TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL AND LOCAL GOVERNANCEMODELS FRAGMENT AMAZONIAN PROTECTED AREAS
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https://doi.org/10.22409/GEOgraphia2026.v28i61.a59679Palavras-chave:
Global climate finance, Socio-ecological systems, Extractive reserves, Political economy of conservation, Agro-extractive supply chainsResumo
The architecture of global environmental finance operates on a foundational premise: that massive capital injections can permanently insulate tropical biomes from economic degradation. Most international governance paradigms focus heavily on expanding this spatial matrix of protected perimeters across the Amazon basin. However, the systemic decoupling between macro-conservation financing and the micro-level realities of traditional societies exposes a critical paradox. Although transnational programs like the PPG-7 and ARPA successfully consolidated millions of hectares on paper, they prioritized top-down, technocentric monitoring while freezing the operational budgets and technological supply of human-inhabited reserves. In this investigation, we unravel the 36-year legacy of these mechanisms across the Amazon's first four Extractive Reserves established in 1990. We demonstrate how this financial vacuum effectively drives localized forest-to-pasture conversion by trapping frontline communities in structural poverty. The evidence highlights that macro-centric capital density is functionally unviable without decentralized micro-governance equity, establishing an urgent conceptual baseline to reform international climate finance.
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