Description
This study explores Brazil's role in shaping South Atlantic Ocean governance, highlighting the specific challenges and opportunities and the high policy themes that maritime spaces present in terms of defense, development, and sustainability. With a vast coastline and jurisdiction over the so-called Blue Amazon, Brazil occupies a strategic position that influences national, regional, and global approaches to sustainable management and maritime security, which also needs to receive attention from the state now and for the future. Endowed with innovative structures that respond to maritime spaces' fluid, interconnected, and often contested nature, ocean governance in the South Atlantic involves distinct legal, environmental, and security challenges to design public policies. The article in question focuses on two main aspects. First, it investigates the elements that differentiate ocean governance from the development of Brazil's perception and political structure. It also considers aspects of maritime security in adaptation to the current dynamic environmental and jurisdictional demands of maritime areas. Second, the study analyzes the evolution of maritime security practices in Brazil, where agencies such as the Brazilian Navy and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) play roles in monitoring, protecting, and supporting the safe use of these waters in their broad dimensions. It discusses how these institutions, through technological advances and policy integration, contribute to ocean governance frameworks at the macro and micro levels, which seek to address transnational threats, biodiversity conservation, and national and regional cooperation.
