Environmental compensation in Brazil: compensation for what and for whom?

• Grant number: 13/16022-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry
• Grantee: Rafael Oliveira Fonseca
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the current period questions about the environment, especially those related to sustainable development, are common in our everyday lives. In this sense, we observed during the last two decades a gradual expansion of the debates to encompass and consolidate the economic and social pillars, as well promote the growth of public participation in environmental issues. Concomitantly, during the 1990s, the Brazil went through a process of political and economic changes characterized by the adoption of a development model based on the opening of the economy to the international market, imposing of the country a new pattern of organization of the territory based, for example, in the search for a higher efficiency in infrastructural sectors considered strategic for the country's economic growth, such as transport, energy and urban infrastructure. In this context, there are several relevant environmental elements, such as the environmental damage caused by great infrastructure projects managed by the Brazilian state (at different levels of government), objects of debate due to the magnitude of their impacts and a structural inability for monitoring of some state agencies. Based on those premises, our objective is analyze and understand the role of the state and its public policies, in the definition of environmental compensation considering the scale of the federal administration of the country: the guidelines that involve the calculation of financial resources to be spent by entrepreneurs; the activities of state agencies directly related to environmental compensation (Ibama, ICMBio, etc.); as well as public actions related to the implementation, management and supervision of the proceeds of this instrument in Brazil. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FONSECA, Rafael Oliveira. The environmental compensation in Brazil: compensation for what and for whom?. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.