10.25651/2.2020.0001
Klingler, Michael
Michael
Klingler
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0598-9180
University of Innsbruck
Mack, Philipp
Philipp
Mack
University of Freiburg
From zero deforestation to zero illegality: Discussing practices of territorialization in Southwest Pará
Universität Innsbruck
2020
ConferencePresentation
Zero Deforestation
Rural Environmental Registry (CAR)
Post-frontier governance
Brazilian Amazon
2019-03-02
en
Presentation given at the 2nd Austrian Conference on International Resource Politics: Resources for a social-ecological transformation, 28th February - 2nd March 2019, Innsbruck/Austria.<br>Environmental policy changes and supply chain interventions greatly influenced the post-2004 deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon. Nevertheless, since 2012 deforestation rates are on the rise again. Especially in Southwest Pará, where the frontier dynamics of speculative deforestation and illegal cattle ranching are ubiquitous, deforestation is far from ‘zero’. Even though a series of governmental command-and-control actions to control illegal deforestation have been implemented, especially the situation of land tenure insecurity dulls the story of governance success in the region. We argue that the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) is a significant practice of territorialization to establish control over people and resources in space. In this context our analysis highlights contradictions of zero deforestation strategies and efforts to strengthen zero ‘illegality’ by developing rural economy in terms of socio-ecological sustainability.