Entre O Valor Ecológico E a Renda Local: Mediações Institucionais E Limites Da Financeirização Da Natureza Na Amazônia
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This theoretical and critical essay analyzes the wealth-poverty paradox in the Brazilian Amazon, investigating the epistemological limits of environmental economic valuation and the risks of exclusion associated with the financialization of nature. Moving away from claims of primary empirical modeling, the study is methodologically structured as a critical synthesis and systematic triangulation of secondary empirical evidence (integrating existing spatial econometrics, input-output, simultaneous equation systems, and multi-criteria analyses from literature). Grounded in the Capital Controversy, Amartya Sen's Capabilities Theory, and the Theory of Access, we propose a novel conceptual framework based on three plans of value (ecological value, estimated value, and locally appropriable value) to explain the reproduction of regional poverty systems. The essay concludes that economic and market-based mechanisms are structurally insufficient and potentially exclusive unless subordinated to polycentric governance, land-tenure security, and distributive equity, positioning its scholarly contribution at the intersection of Ecological Economics and Regional Development.
DOI: 10.66104/ne0x1513
Authors: Lissandro Botelho, Sylvio Puga
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7169614386