Amazon, Frontier and Protected Areas

Dialectic Between Economic Expansion and Nature Conservation

Bibliographic Data

ID3755134
AuthorsVinicius Vasconcelos Da Silva (0000-0002-0887-7523, Universidade Federal do Amazonas), Ricardo Gilson Da Costa Silva (0000-0002-3348-9629, Universidade Federal de Rondônia)
Year2022
Volume25
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200224r1vu2022l3oa
OpenAlexW4312769575
SCIELO_PIDS1414-753X2022000100331
LanguageEN
References cited17

The territorial dynamics of the frontier in the Brazilian Amazon region indicates that land and natural resources continue to be incorporated into the mechanisms of capital accumulation. This process has largely spread into Protected Areas (Conservation Areas and Indigenous Lands), reaching natural spaces and traditional territories inhabited by indigenous peoples and Amazonian communities. Thus, the expansion of the frontier in the south of the state of Amazonas is analyzed, in view of the pressures of the Government and extractive economies to convert Protected Areas into a space of capital. Such expansion is not supported solely by economic agents and society, but has the Government as the main inducing agent. The results indicate an increase in deforestation and disruption of the environmental policy, configuring the restructuring of the frontier

Amazon rainforest · Economics · Economy · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Natural capital · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Restructuring · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Economic and Technological Innovation · Fish biology, ecology, and behavior · Ecology

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