The new Brazilian SpaceAmazônia Azul and its implications | O novo espaço brasileiro: Amazônia Azul e suas implicações

Resumo

A Brazilian Admiral coined the concept Amazônia Azul or Blue Amazon, to draw attention to the incredible size of the country’s jurisdictional waters and to all the resources they contain, living, mineral including offshore oil and gas. These waters represent nearly 4.5 million km2 , which equals over 50% of the country’s land surface. However, to create this space with this enormous size, the Brazilian Interministerial Commission for Sea Resources (CIRM), coordinated by the Navy, had to be quite ingenious to follow the rules of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This article studies first the establishment of the space Amazônia Azul, then how this space is being developed in a sustainable way, and how its defence is being set up. The policies of defence created by the Lula Government are also quite innovative, and, in particular, the technology transfer with strategic military partners warrants special attention.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

Instituição

ANPUR

Fonte

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.22296/2317-1529.2017v19n2p379

Identificador

oai:ojs.rbeur.anpur.org.br:article/5483

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Meio Ambiente

Palavras-chave

Amazônia AzulUNCLOSsustainable developmentNavydefenceCIRM