Political Bargaining and the Unmaking of Amazon Protection in Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2026-815

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Indigenous rights, climate change, environmental policy, public health

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This brief communication aims to demonstrate that recent Brazilian setbacks constitute a systemic transformation of environmental governance that weakens constitutional safeguards, undermines Indigenous rights, and elevates climate and zoonotic risks in the Amazon. By reframing environmental licensing and land demarcation as instruments of short-term political and geopolitical bargaining, Brazil jeopardizes domestic ecological stability, global climate security, and public health.

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2026-09-16

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Saldanha Machado, C. J., Machado Vilani, R., & Fearnside, P. M. (2026). Political Bargaining and the Unmaking of Amazon Protection in Brazil. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2026-815

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Copyright (c) 2026 Carlos José Saldanha Machado, Rodrigo Machado Vilani, Philip M. Fearnside

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