This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
From Forest to Vineyards: The Changing Landscape in Brazil
Beginning in the nineteenth century, southern Brazil experienced increasingly rapid transformation of its forest ecosystems, particularly in regions occupied by the settlement of Italian and German Immigrants. Over the intervening years, native forests were replaced by agriculture (mono and polyculture), livestock, urban centers, reforestation with exotic trees, and fruit cultivation. Specifically with respect to fruit cultivation, there was a preference for viticulture, which is the main subject of our research.
There are few studies about the patterns and processes of this transformation and their relation with socioeconomic and biophysical aspects. Traditionally, there is a lack of integration of multidisciplinary data that has holding back the possibility to understand such complex phenomena. Therefore, an integrated approach helps to bring into a relevant contextual analysis by combining data normally analyzed separately. This research is intended to understand the transformation of ecosystems by linking and spatially integrating data on ecosystem distribution and formation, with demographic, land use, and settlement history data on a regional scale.
Our project now has a dedicated website here.
There are few studies about the patterns and processes of this transformation and their relation with socioeconomic and biophysical aspects. Traditionally, there is a lack of integration of multidisciplinary data that has holding back the possibility to understand such complex phenomena. Therefore, an integrated approach helps to bring into a relevant contextual analysis by combining data normally analyzed separately. This research is intended to understand the transformation of ecosystems by linking and spatially integrating data on ecosystem distribution and formation, with demographic, land use, and settlement history data on a regional scale.
Our project now has a dedicated website here.
Former Lab Staff:
Celena Allen
