Abstract
Abstract This article examines how in the past two decades development standards have been established for the Amazon based on both strengthening environmental governance and expanding agriculture. It describes how the process of construction in time of an ambiguous development policy model for the Amazon, which has oscillated between territorial management based on a “green agenda” perspective and investment in policies that favored territorial security of land occupancy implemented through changes in laws and regulations concerning the environment and land ownership. Finally, I emphasize the recent convergence of interests of international cooperation, the state and agribusiness around public policies for environmental regulation based on a perspective of harmonious conviviality and positive and systemic alignment between the economy and the environment.
Highlights
O artigo examina como nas duas últimas décadas constituíram-se padrões de desenvolvimento para a Amazônia baseados tanto no fortalecimento da governança ambiental e quanto na expansão agropecuária
70% of the fires were in southern Amazonas state, where the number of fires increased 400% over 2018
We sought to review the process of affirmation of a standard of environmental governance for the Amazon and the concomitant investment in agricultural development in the region
Summary
In early August 2019, the large surge of forest fires led the government of Amazonas state to declare a state of emergency and request federal government assistance. I consider data gathered in research conducted in Lábrea, a municipality in southern Amazonas state, with high levels of accumulated deforestation and where tensions between the two development models are evident over time. I would like to emphasize that the impetus to agricultural development focused on the expansion and consolidation of the region as an epicenter of agribusiness in Amazonas has guided public policies in the region since the first government of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, an effort that gained strength with changes in the legal framework concerning the environment and land ownership in the government of President Michel Temer, (2016-2018), helping to understand the conditions that made it possible for southern Amazonas to become one of the regions with the highest concentrations of criminal fires in the entire Amazon
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