ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS LANDS AND ITS NATURAL RESOURCES: LEGAL GROUNDS, LIMITS AND CHALLENGES

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Adam Luiz Claudino de Brito
Erivaldo Moreira Barbosa

Abstract

The article analyzes the Brazilian indigenous environmental policies since the advent of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the natural resources management systems in indigenous lands created by government agencies responsible for implementing these policies. For this, it made a theoretical and legal approach to Federal Law n.12.593 / 2012 and Decree n. 7747/2012. In terms of methodology, the article is descriptive and exploratory approach and seeks to know the legal sense of the legal commands related to the protection of indigenous peoples and environmental management of their territories, domestically and internationally, through the hermeneutic-normative approach. Despite the indigenous peoples are legitimate to decide on the sustainability of their lives, what we have realized is that a set of marketing-capitalist factors have reinforced the rights denial process, which justifies the creation of spaces for popular participation indigenous to the formulation of public policies in democratic decision-making processes involving the management of indigenous land.

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Adam Luiz Claudino de Brito, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Professor Assistente I do Curso de Direito da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso/ Campus Universitário do Araguaia. Mestre em Direito Agroambiental (UFMT/ Faculdade de Direito/Campus de Cuiabá) e Doutorando em Recursos Naturais pela Universidade Federal de Campina Grande/ Paraíba).

Erivaldo Moreira Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

Professor Doutor em Recursos Naturais pela UFCG e Mestre em Ciências Jurídicas pela UFPB. Professor e Orientador de Pós-Graduação (Doutorado, Mestrado e Especialização) em Direito Ambiental e Direito Constitucional na UFCG e no DINTER da UFCG/UFMT.