Brazil’s new president and ‘ruralists’ threaten Amazonia’s environment, traditional peoples and the global climate

Bibliographic Data

ID23344696
AuthorsLucas Ferrante (0000-0003-2636-5713, National Institute of Amazonian Research, corresponding author), Philip M Fearnside (0000-0003-3672-9082, National Institute of Amazonian Research)
Year2019
Volume46
Issue4
Pages261-263
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Conservation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0376-8929 • E-ISSN: 1469-4387
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0376892919000213
OpenAlexW2964076651
LanguageEN
Citations received91
References cited14

Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil’s new president) and “ruralists” (large landholders and their representatives) have initiated a series of measures that threaten Amazonia’s environment and traditional peoples, as well as global climate. These include weakening the country’s environmental agencies and forest code, granting amnesty to deforestation, approving harmful agrochemicals, reducing protected areas, and denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change. Both the measures themselves and the expectation of impunity they encourage have spurred increased deforestation, which contributes to climate change and to land conflicts with traditional peoples. Countries and companies that import Brazilian beef, soy and minerals are stimulating these impacts.

Agroforestry · Amazon rainforest · Amnesty · Business · Climate change · Deforestation (computer science) · Development economics · Economics · Environmental protection · Geography · Global warming · Human rights · Impunity · Natural resource economics · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Law

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