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Territories of nature: appropriation and extinction in Brazil

Abstract

This article addresses my reflections upon my dialogue with De Paula over the recent years. It is a theoretical perspective that explains what I have been building throughout the research developed in Geography and the search for understanding the concepts of nature and environment. I begin by retrieving the contemporary discussion about these two concepts from reflections that make explicit the differentiation between nature (concept) and environment. I dialog with these current propositions and seek to explain the environmental construct from a geographical perspective. In this sense, I bring to the debate three dimensions that are interconnected and that allowed me to understand this society-nature interconnection as a possibility or, currently, as an analytical necessity in the face of the appropriation and exploitation of human natures and nature by hegemonic agents. The three dimensions are: the nature of nature, the territory of nature and the nature of the territory.

Keywords:
nature; environment; environment in Geography

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