Le Brésil et l’environnement au XXIe siècle : des relations sous tensions

Abstract

From a socio-environmental perspective, the situation in Brazil today may be said to be disastrous. Yet, these difficulties are not new. The “social-developmentalist” model implemented under Lula’s presidency is also vulnerable to critique. By combining neo-liberal macroeconomic policies and state interventionism, it has produced contradictory situations, and strong tensions between development and environmental protection, and national interest and rights of minorities. Things worsened during the first mandate of President Dilma Rousseff, and even more so after the 2016 parliamentary coup. Conservative elites are undoing environmental legislation to defend their interests. Violence and criminalization of opponents is becoming a new mode of state regulation.

Keywords

• Brazil
• socio-environmentalism
• Lula
• coup
• deregulation
• elites