Gloria Eliana Torrez Castro

@ppggeografia.ufc.br

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ - UFC

Gloria Eliana Torrez Castro
She has consolidated professional experience in the public sector and in technical consultancies, working at the municipal, departmental, and national levels, especially in the formulation of territorial plans, urban and housing policies, land use planning instruments, and geographic information systems. She has participated in the preparation of territorial diagnoses, technical guides, thematic maps, and institutional capacity-building processes, in conjunction with government agencies, universities, and international organizations. She teaches postgraduate courses in the areas of territorial planning, land surveying, urban planning, and GIS, in addition to developing research, extension, and technical cooperation activities. She is the author and co-author of scientific articles and technical publications, with works presented at national and international academic events. She is a member of the Bolivian Institute of Urbanism (IBU).

EDUCATION

An architect with a master's degree in Territorial Planning and Urban Planning, and a doctoral candidate in Geography at the Postgraduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), specializing in Territorial and Environmental Dynamics, with a research focus on Nature, Countryside, and City in the Semi-Arid region, she is supervised by Professor Flavio Rodrigues do Nascimento. Her research focuses on territorial and environmental dynamics in urban and metropolitan contexts in Latin America, with an emphasis on landscape fragmentation, urbanization, territorial planning, and socio-spatial analysis supported by geotechnologies.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Geography, Planning and Development, Urban Studies, Multidisciplinary

FUTURE PROJECTS

Study of human settlements on the border.

Study of the relationships of human settlements around the borders of Bolivia.


Applications Invited
collaborators

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Análisis socioespacial de áreas urbanas informales, basados en tecnologías de información geográfica
    GT Castro, RFM Rodriguez, MHB Irusta
    Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales IBU 1 (1) , 2025
    2025
  • Fragmentación del paisaje en la Región Metropolitana de La Paz, entre 2017 y 2023
    GET Castro, RFM Rodríguez
    Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales IBU 1 (1) , 2025
    2025
  • INFLUENCIA DE LA EXPANSIÓN EM LA FRAGMENTACIÓN DEL PAISAJE DE LA REGIÓN METROPOLITANA DE SANTA CRUZ-BOLIVIA
    RFM Rodriguez, GET Castro
    Estudos Geográficos: Revista Eletrônica de Geografia 22 (3), 43-65 , 2024
    2024

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Análisis socioespacial de áreas urbanas informales, basados en tecnologías de información geográfica
    GT Castro, RFM Rodriguez, MHB Irusta
    Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales IBU 1 (1) , 2025
    2025
  • Fragmentación del paisaje en la Región Metropolitana de La Paz, entre 2017 y 2023
    GET Castro, RFM Rodríguez
    Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales IBU 1 (1) , 2025
    2025
  • INFLUENCIA DE LA EXPANSIÓN EM LA FRAGMENTACIÓN DEL PAISAJE DE LA REGIÓN METROPOLITANA DE SANTA CRUZ-BOLIVIA
    RFM Rodriguez, GET Castro
    Estudos Geográficos: Revista Eletrônica de Geografia 22 (3), 43-65 , 2024
    2024