PhD in Geography by Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Presidente Prudente campus. CAPES scholarship. Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculty of Science and Technology, Presidente Prudente campus.
PhD in Geography by Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Presidente Prudente campus. Associate Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL.
In this paper Geography is understood in the perspective of its totality, so that society and nature are related through a dialectical process. Therefore, it is made a defense that actions aimed at contributing to regional development have to consider all dimensions of reality and not only the economic on as in the capitalist model. As a scale it is used in the region of Pontal do Paranapanema, in the State of São Paulo. It stands out as in the Pontal do Paranapanema coexist different models of development, nevertheless, a prevalence has been the capitalist one.
