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标题：Environmental Policy in the Bolsonaro Government: The Response of Environmentalists in the Legislative Arena
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作者：Suely Mara Vaz Guimarães de Araújo
期刊名称：Brazilian Political Science Review
电子版ISSN：1981-3821
出版年度：2020
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：1-20
DOI：10.1590/1981-3821202000020005
语种：English
出版社：Brazilian Political Science Association
摘要：This article analyzes the response of Brazil’s National Congress to the Bolsonaro government’s actions in respect of environmental policy, with an emphasis on the role of the active members of the Congressional Environmental Coalition and the civil society organizations that support it. Congress’s three spheres of activity encompass lawmaking, legislative oversight and the budget. The main decision-making processes related to these fields of activity are highlighted and analyzed using a qualitative approach. In general, there is evidence of an appropriate response by environmentalists, the results of which should not be underestimated, but which should have greater reach in view of the gravity of the destruction of environmental protection policy that has taken and continues to take place. The Bolsonaro government has presided over an attempted evisceration of environmental policies by changing non-statutory rules and cutting budgets, but Congress has put the brakes on nationally applicable laws and strengthened Congressional oversight.