Limites estratégicos entre as agendas ambiental e de segurança/defesa nacional: notas para uma geopolítica ambiental no Brasil do século XXI

Abstract

As a large country, Brazil has multiple challenges for both the National Security Agenda and the Environmental Agenda. However, this immense resource potential does not yet translate into economic growth, power projection, sustainable development, comparative advantages, or social justice. The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century brought to national states two orders of phenomena: environmental interdependencies (nonrenewable resources, climate vulnerabilities) and socioeconomic interconnections (global flows of capital, commodities, information, people). It is by reflecting on this context of interdependence and interconnection that this paper will analyze some challenges for the Brazilian national state in the defense of sovereignty (self-determination), in the rational use of territory (sustainable development) and in the promotion of citizenship (social justice). To dimension these dependent variables in function of political choices, this article discusses the challenges of relating environmental and national defense agendas in the context of an environmental geopolitics.