The dismantling of the territorial planning policy in the state governments of the Legal Amazon: a comparative study.
Territorial Planning. Ecological-Economic Zoning. Legal Amazon. Populism. QCA.
This project refers to the research “Dismantling the territorial planning policy in the state governments of the Legal Amazon: a comparative study”. Through the methodology of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), the objective here is to identify the necessary and/or sufficient causes, of ideological, political and electoral nature, as well as to understand how they combine for the dismantling of the territorial planning policy of the Amazonian states between the years 2019 and 2022. Specifically, the territorial planning policy is investigated from the analysis of its main instrument: the “Ecological-Economic Zoning” (ZEE). The investigated result refers to the decrease in the substantive intensity conferred to the ZEE's of the states of the Legal Amazon during the considered time frame. This research is justified both by the scientific gap in productions that focus on the phenomenon of dismantling in federal units, and by the Brazilian federalist structure, which establishes that environmental policy is a shared responsibility between the Union, states and municipalities. The territorial planning policy has its relevance justified by being the axis of the main environmental protection programs in Brazil. It is hypothesized that the causes for the phenomenon studied concern the alignment of governors with populist ideology; the large participation of agribusiness in state economies; and, the electoral preference of the Amazonian states for environmental policies that favor dismantling.