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| Author(s): |
Andrei Cornetta
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-02-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Inez Medeiros Marques;
Hector Hernan Mondragon Baez;
Amelia Luisa Damiani;
Sueli Angelo Furlan;
Rosa Elizabeth Acevedo Marin
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| Advisor: | Marta Inez Medeiros Marques |
| Abstract | |
From a critical perspective, this research examines the ways in which political programs on climate change and compensatory activities of greenhouse gases become reality in Brazil. The research analyzes the establishment of a low carbon economy in the Amazon, more specifically on its consequences on land issues in the Amazonian states, and present two illustrative cases of carbon projects involving forests in the state of Pará. It discusses about the coexistences and antagonisms in relations established between the regular activities of rural communities - their economic uses and ways of living together with the Amazon rainforest (specifically wood and agriculture) - and the introduction of the current projects \"deforestation avoided\". On the complexity that presents the current context of climate change, the research relies on an analysis from fundamental concepts for contemporary geography, as \"accumulation by dispossession\", \"uneven geographical development\" and \"production of nature\". Thus, it presents, along the thesis, the central question about how the Amazon forest is replaced by new use-value and exchange in the context of climate change and how their resignification comes to represent new strategies of accumulation of capital. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/05690-8 - Between climate and land: a geographical analysis of "low-carbon economy" on Amazon |
| Grantee: | Andrei Cornetta |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |