The internationalization of the forestry codes of Brazil and France

• Autor(a) principal: Serpa, João Eduardo Colognesi
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Santos, Antônio Carlos dos, Santos, Lorena Xavier Conceição
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/43773
• topic: sovereignty; international regime; Amazon; Soberania; regime internacional; Amazônia.

Sovereignty is a founding principle of international relations. It shapes the way states address the various topics of the international political agenda. The approach to some issues, though, must be reconsidered, lest sovereignty may impose limits down on their management. The forests are one such topic. It is impossible to restrict the ecological benefits that they generate to the borders of a nation, to the same extent that the damages caused by forest devastation will affect the whole world. The Amazon, which has a major role in bringing balance to planet Earth, should not be claimed as the property of only few countries. Indeed, since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm, 1972, international society has been trying to make environmental governance more uniform and cohesive. State institutions and legislations have been influenced by this trend, what can be observed in the Forestry Codes of Brazil and France, two Amazon states themselves. This paper’s goal is to compare the degree of internationalization attained by environmental legislations in the Amazon territories of Brazil and France - in French Guiana. For this, the comparative-historical analysis and document analysis are adopted, the research being descriptive and explanatory. In the end, it is possible to draw the conclusion that both countries, to varying degrees, have been shaping into the international environmental regime and that French law is the one that is closer to treating the Amazon as a global good.