THE BRAZILIAN INSTITUTE FOR FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT: BETWEEN THE FOREST, THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Brazilian Institute of Forestry Development; Development; Environment; amazon
The present project has as research object the Brazilian Institute of Forestry Development (IBDF). Created during the period of the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil, the institute had its birth as a federal autarchy in 1967 and its end after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988, being the cut of this research, the period corresponding to the functioning of the institution (1967 -1989). During its period of existence, two main functions were assigned to this autarchy: To develop the Brazilian forest sector while at the same time being responsible for the preservation/conservation of nature. The research proposal, guided by the Gramscian understanding of the State, aims to analyze the institute taking into account the projects, discourses and, fundamentally, the institutional agents as representatives of antagonistic social groups, since we start from the interpretation that the IBDF must be understood as the stage of disputes in the formulation of Brazilian environmental policy and in actions aimed at the Amazon. In this sense, the opposition between development and conservation/preservation, mainly in its consequences in relation to the Amazon region, will guide the direction of the research.