Políticas públicas e ambientalismo no agroamazônico: um estudo de caso do Acre (1999-2010)

Abstract

This thesis discusses the government politics of the “Frente Popular” of state of Acre (Brazil) during the period 1999-2010, facing encouraged the development of an economy based agroforestry and guided by the principle of sustainable development and the florestania and neoestrativismo concepts. We rely on studies of federal policies implemented in the Amazon region since the 1970s until the 2000s. From there, we analyze the consequences of these policies in state of Acre, with emphasis on the period between 1999-2010, which correspond the first three Frente Popular governments. We seek to examine the government’s strategy in order to promote economic and social development of the state of Acre, based on the forestry sector (especially through the practice of forest management), while seeking to reconcile support for traditional economic activities such as farming, logging and resource extraction. The thesis also analyses state policies to encourage forest timber and livestock, highlighting the experience of Development Project supported by the International Tropical Timber Organization – ITTO – and its social and economic implications for agroextractivist producers of Antimary State Forest, localized in Bujari municipality, next to the state capital, Rio Branco.