Table of Contents

Milton Santos and the Centrality of the Periphery.- Technical-scientific-informational Milieu, Networks and Territories.- How can Santos's Theory and Concepts Help us to Better Understand Third World Dynamics and Problems?- Psychosphere and Technosphere: Complex Relations in the Hospital Realm.- The Political Economy of Territory and Agribusiness in Brazil.- Territorial Planning in Brazil: An Interpretation Based on the Ideas of Milton Santos.- Rethinking Federalism from the Work of Milton Santos.- Milton Santos’s Contribution to Understanding the Transformations Underway at Modern Agricultural Frontiers.- Geography and Indigenous Peoples: Milton Santos and the Richness of the Present Time.- Milton Santos’s Thought and the Logic of Environmental Conservation in the Contemporary Period.- Environmental Crisis Seen through the Theories of Milton Santos.