The Land Sparing Complex: Environmental Governance, Agricultural Intensification, and State Building in the Brazilian Amazon
| Autor: | Gregory M. Thaler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Government
Economic growth Amazon rainforest Natural resource economics 050204 development studies media_common.quotation_subject Corporate governance 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography State-building Geography State (polity) Environmental governance Deforestation 0502 economics and business Agricultural productivity 050703 geography Earth-Surface Processes media_common |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107:1424-1443 |
| ISSN: | 2469-4460 2469-4452 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/24694452.2017.1309966 |
| Popis: | Since 2004, annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen nearly 80 percent, even as agricultural production in the region has increased. Understanding this land use transition requires a theorization of the relationships among environmental governance, agricultural intensification, and state building. Drawing on key informant interviews, municipal-level case studies, and an organizational ethnography of an international environmental organization, I argue that declines in deforestation engineered by new governance arrangements are part of a project of economic development and state building through environmental regulation. This project is implemented by a complex of government, nongovernmental, and corporate actors. I describe the emergence of this complex and the land sparing logic that animates it. Land sparing policy inverts previous logics of state territorialization and environmental conservation with the aim of shifting the Amazonian economy from an extensive mode of extraction to an int... |
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