This article examines how in the past two decades development standards have been
established for the Amazon based on both strengthening environmental governance and …

Highlights•The socio-environmentalist based policies are far from achieving their goals of
sustainability.•Post-environmentalism is the current development paradigm in the Brazilian …

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 …

The Brazilian government has promoted development in Amazonia for over forty years.
Nevertheless, improvement of rural conditions has been limited. Although tropical …

The policy intervention to enforce property rights and control deforestation frontiers is often
undermined in the Brazilian Amazon, and this intervention problem is considered to be …

Indigenous resource management is transforming in the face of urbanisation in Amazonia.
We wonder how land tenure arrangements feature a new kind of resource management in …

Amazonian ecological and cultural landscapes have been cause for debate between
environmental and development agencies that have attempted to re-configure them into …

Since the 1970s, the ghost of an “international conspiracy” to occupy the Brazilian Amazon
has emerged against the backdrop of shifting social and political realities. This article looks …

Tendo a referência do debate institucionalista, o artigo discute arranjos institucionais na
Amazônia considerando a diversidade estrutural que caracteriza o setor rural na Região. A …

For decades, the Brazilian Amazon has been at the center of contentious debates around
economic development strategies, political agendas and environmentalist interests …