Project Summary
This research project aims to comprehensively assess the EUDR's multifaceted impacts through the lens of Brazil's legal and policy landscape, so as to inform Brazilian stakeholders and provide tools for the conception, development, enforcement and compliance of rules and monitoring mechanisms concerning forests. Furthermore, this project delves into the potential economic ramifications of the EUDR on the international stage. We will analyze its potential impact on established commodity trade chains, particularly focusing on how it might affect major exporting countries like Brazil. Employing a comparative approach, we will also explore the similarities and differences between the EUDR and existing environmental regulations governing forest ecosystems within Brazil. This analysis will provide valuable insights into potential areas of alignment, inconsistencies, and opportunities for adaptation.
Objectives
In-depth analysis of international, regional and national forest regulation
Assessment of the legal and policy impacts in Brazil
Enhance stakeholders’ decision-making capacities through dissemination
Methodology
In order to achieve the main objective of the project, a mixed methodological approach is employed, comprising theoretical and empirical analysis with both qualitative and quantitative elements in a multi-layered analysis (qualitative/quantitative/qualitative). The complexity of the project’s objectives requires the conduction of a multidisciplinary study with the use of methodological pluralism. Mixed methods will be employed in both the stages of this research, i.e. data collection and analysis. This project will also employ a comparative methodological approach to draw differences and similarities between EU regulations (EUDR and previous initiatives) and those which are applicable to forest ecosystems in Brazil, which will afford an extended view of the situation as it currently stands and predictions on how it will affect stakeholders.
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