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Rainforest destruction at the peripheries of the state
Environmental relations, power configurations and strategies of local actors
Furthermore, we want to analyze which are the influencing socio-political configurations (i.e. corruption, patron-client-relation) and regionally differentiated forms of social inequality, power relations and hierarchical structures that thwart the implementation of government norms and order. Additionally, the research emphasizes the following questions. How does the locally defined socio-political power configuration determine local options of action? To which degree certain official objectives are obstacles to the protection of the rainforest, because they want to attain conflicting aims? To which degree it is possible to achieve simultaneously the goal of social justice (property rights, access to resources) and environmental sustainability?
Regional focuses of this inquiry on the socio-political dynamics and environmental conflicts are the areas affected by the BR 163 highway between Santarém and Cuiabá (Pará, Matto Grosso) and the south-eastern region of Pará, which is one of the biggest hosting region for settlements of land reform.
Project Leader: | Prof. Dr. Ernst Halbmayer |
Scientific assistants: | Dr. Karin Naase, Michaela Meurer M.A. and Schabnam Kaviany M.A. |
Conception: | Prof. Dr. Ernst Halbmayer and Dr. Karin Naase |
Duration: | 2012-2014 |
Financing: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) HA 5957/4-1 |