Article
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Abstract
This text looks at the Brazilian Forest Code of 1934, starting from the historical and political context of the late 1920s and early 1930s. This legal instrument on the use and conservation of Brazilian forests is approved on the basis of a meeting between Science – the intellectuals, the State – technobureaucracy, and the Brazilian elite – urban. This brings together a number of concrete practices such as the creation of the first National Parks, which places forests as areas of public interest and, above all, forges the concept of conservation within environmental legislation. We believe that from the analysis of the Forest Code it can be demonstrated that some basic points of the Brazilian territorial training of the early 20th century have been added: nature and speech on nature; delay versus civilisation or progress; Strong and regulatory status; conservation and authoritarianism.