Abstract
ABSTRACT This article investigates to what extent have municipalities participated in the national policies that have addressed deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon under the Action Plan for Prevention and Control Plan of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (Plano de Prevencao e Controle do Desmatamento na Amazonia Legal - PPCDAm). The study found that even though the design of the federal strategy relegated to municipalities the role of mere “locus” or territory for policy enforcement, in some situations local governments have assumed a leading role and empowered themselves as actors and agents in the fight against deforestation, as a response to the Brazilian federal “priority municipalities list” strategy.
Highlights
Controlling deforestation and protecting the rainforest have long been considered key challenges in the Brazilian federal government’s environmental agenda and, as such, has attracted the attention of researchers from the academic community across various research fields
The lack of knowledge about the relevance of municipal participation in the design and implementation of federal environmental policy has contributed to limit the effectiveness of these policies, and the very consolidation of environmental institutions in Brazil,4 unveiling a broad field for research
We focus on one of the most important aspects of the Plan’s operation involving local governments: the group of measures addressing the list of priority municipalities focusing action for the prevention and control of deforestation in the Amazon Biome, established at the end of 2007, hereinafter the “list of priority municipalities”
Summary
Controlling deforestation and protecting the rainforest have long been considered key challenges in the Brazilian federal government’s environmental agenda and, as such, has attracted the attention of researchers from the academic community across various research fields.
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