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- Title
A indústria de ráfia paranaense: relações entre geoeconomia, geografia industrial e fatores locacionais.
- Authors
Horbus, Eliane; Alves Costa, Pierre
- Abstract
The present paper is a study about the plastic transformation industry, in the packing sector that acts in the textile industry and in the raffia sacks production in Parana, focusing in the analysis of that sector development in the same State. Besides, it discourses about the location factors that influenced the industries construction in Guarapuava and Campo Largo, including the survey about the potential of employment creation, the used labor profile and the technologies applied in the industrial process. In the theoretical field, the slight relation between industry studies with Economics Geography and with Geo-economics was approached. In order to accomplish the objectives of the research, some technical visits to the plants located only in Paraná occurred, using the in loco observation technique with structured interviews, trying to evidence each factory own characteristics and their respective location factors. At last, a comparative table is presented showing the development of the three industries settled in Paraná and the conclusion about the possible influence or not, of the location factors.
- Publication
Revista Ateliê Geográfico, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 3, p255
- ISSN
1982-1956
- Publication type
Article