"The Forest is Burning, Call the Police!" Challenges to Governing the Security-Development-Environment Nexus in the Amazon Basin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3133457 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Trajber Waisbich (0000-0002-3964-8205, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 184-202 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x251366305 |
| OpenAlex | W4413302361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
Across the Amazon Basin, deforestation and violence are out of control. This paper unpacks the unfolding law-enforcement and illegality crisis in the Brazilian Amazon through the lenses of a security-development-environment nexus. The paper analyses twenty years (2003-2023) of policy and political responses by the Brazilian federal government to the Amazon problem, highlighting the challenges to build and sustain governance arrangements to deal with the nexus, including tensions and unease related to the security dimension of the crisis, lack of policy coherence regarding sustainable development, the challenges of political alternance, and unresolved civil-military relations dilemmas. O desmatamento e a violência estão fora de controle na Bacia Amazônica. Este artigo analisa a crise de ilegalidade e cumprimento da lei na Amazônia brasileira sob a ótica do nexo entre segurança, desenvolvimento e meio ambiente. O artigo analisa vinte anos (2003-2023) de respostas e políticas do governo federal brasileiro à Questão Amazônica, destacando os desafios para construir e sustentar arranjos de governança para lidar com este nexo. Com destaque para as tensões e ambivalências relacionadas à dimensão securitária da crise, a falta de coerência política na promoção do desenvolvimento sustentável, os desafios de alternância política e os dilemas, todavia presentes, na relação civil-militar na gestão da região
Amazon basin · Amazon rainforest · Business · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Geography · Geomorphology · Nexus (standard) · Structural basin · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Ecology · Engineering · Environmental Science · Forestry · Geology · Political Conflict and Governance
The convergence of environmental crime with other serious crimes
O Programa Calha Norte
Trading forests
Extreme violence without war and its social reproduction implications for building peace in Latin America
Prospects and challenges for policy convergence between the EU and China to address imported deforestation
The Logic of “War on Deforestation”
Brazil's Amazon Fund
The coloniality of power on the green frontier
Necropolitics, State of Exception, and Violence Against Indigenous People in the Amazon Region During the Bolsonaro Administration
A Military-Green Biopolitics
Climate Security, the Amazon, and the Responsibility to Protect
Ameaça e caráter transnacional do narcotráfico na Amazônia brasileira
Brazil and the politics of climate change
A questão ambiental e o adensamento da presença do Exército Brasileiro na Amazônia Legal no fi nal do século XX
Waging a war to save biodiversity
Violence and Illegal Deforestation
The Amazon rainforest and the global-regional politics of ecosystem governance
Geopolítica da Amazônia
As Dinâmicas Do Mercado Ilegal De Cocaína Na Tríplice Fronteira Entre Brasil, Peru E Colômbia
Evolução do Plano de Ação para Prevenção e Controle do Desmatamento na Amazônia Legal
Crônica de uma negociação (Na Conferência do Meio-Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Rio/92)
Democracy and Violence in Brazil
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |