ABSTRACT

Post-frontier governance in the Brazilian Amazon highlights the interaction of regulatory technologies, institutions and practices to combat illegal deforestation and appropriation of public lands. While the Amazon fires received tremendous media coverage in 2019, the dismantlement of environmental laws and regulatory agencies has supported the rise in deforestation as early as 2012. We discuss the impact of post-frontier governance in Southwest-Pará by analyzing the spatial distribution of deforestation, territorial management, law enforcement, and environmental regularization from 2000 to 2018. The integration of spatial analysis with qualitative field surveys in the blacklisted municipality Novo Progresso shows that deforestation control largely fails, specifically in undesignated public lands. While land tenure security remains the biggest challenge in the region, the persistent imagination of free-for-all frontier spaces encourages the uncontrolled appropriation of and speculation with public lands. Here, the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) has been identified as a key instrument to secure land claims.

摘要

巴西亚马逊河的后边界治理强调了管制技术，机构和实践的相互作用，以打击非法砍伐森林和挪用公共土地。尽管亚马逊大火在2019年获得了媒体的广泛报道，但环境法律和监管机构的取消早在2012年就支持了森林砍伐的增加。 ，领土管理，执法和环境法规化（从2000年到2018年）。将空间分析与定性野外调查相结合，在列入黑名单的市长Novo Progresso中表明，森林砍伐控制在很大程度上失败了，特别是在未指定的公共土地上。尽管土地保有权安全仍然是该地区最大的挑战，但人们对永久免费边界空间的持续想象促使人们对公共土地进行不加控制的占有和投机。在这里，农村环境注册处（CAR）被确定为确保土地所有权的关键工具。