CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Machado de Sousa, Sara |
|---|---|
| Title | Between pioneering and leadership: Brazil's contribution for international forest governance |
| Summary | From 2005 until 2009, Brazil went through a prolific period of environmental and climate policy-making and activity. Among that set of initiatives, stands out the Amazon Fund, a pioneering programme of international cooperation with national ownership directed at the protection and conservation of the Amazon rainforest. The Fund contained innovative features that can be found to have proven impactful in fellow rainforest countries and the level of the United Nations’ forest mechanisms. Despite this legacy, and because of other behaviours displayed in that period and before, Brazil is not perceived by its peers, nor by literature, as a leader in forest governance. This dissertation departs from these premises to suggest another categorisation that does Brazil’s legacy justice: environmental pioneer. After retrieving a framework of analysis from relevant literature on pioneers, this work sets out to highlight key moments of environmental leadership by Brazil in the aforementioned time period. In the end, it sustains its central argument by showcasing how Brazil, by having established the Amazon Fund, matches the characteristics of pioneers, policy diffusion and leadership in environmental affairs as identified in literature. This approach contributes to understanding Brazil’s contributions to forest governance, on the one hand; and emphasises mechanisms and initiatives of much-needed pioneering environmental policy-making, on the other. |
| Supervisor | LaRoche, Christopher |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/sousa_sara-machado.pdf |
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