Clearcut

Political Economies of Deforestation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-38954-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten

Regionally dominant extractive sectors - including Brazilian cattle ranching, Amazonian narco-gold mining, and Finnish paper pulping - provide the foundation for this book's analysis of the range of motivations for deforestation. This framing allows for a discussion of the global political economy and ecology in general, and an in-depth examination of the varieties of extractivisms that define land and resource use. The chapters take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political ethnography and world systems analyses across the Global North-South divide. The book develops and applies a new theory that identifies regionally dominant political-economic systems as the driving forces behind deforestation. This book is essential reading for advanced students, researchers, and policy makers working in (de)forestation, environmental studies, environmental law, economics, conservation, climate change, and sustainability, leading to a deeper understanding of why our planet's forests are under threat. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroger, Markus

Kröger, Markus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations Part I. Introduction: 1. Theorizing regionally-dominant political and moral economies as causes of deforestation; Part II. Ranching-Grabbing Brazil: 2. Ranching the Amazon; 3. The land grabbing Mafias in Brazilian Amazon; 4. The Brazilian state and resistance to Amazon deforestation; Part III. Narco-Gold in the Rainforest: The Connection of Gold Mining and Organized Crime to Amazon Degradation: 5. Gold mining, illegality and deforestation in the Amazon; 6. Gold mining and indigenous conflicts in Madre de Dios, Peru; 7. Tracking the rising role of organized crime in gold mining: Southwestern Pará, Brazil; Part IV. Pulping Finland: 8. Finland's clearcutting forestry; 9. Consolidating the pulping economy in Finland; 10. New resistance to clearcutting in Finland; Part V. Global Deforestation: 11. The international system, global crises, and deforestation; 12. Conclusions; Epilogue; Glossary; List of references; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kröger, Markus
Markus Kröger is a Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. He has focused on the politics of extraction and resistance amid global climatic-ecological crises. He has published four books and many articles on forestry, mining, agriculture, and agroforestry dynamics, focusing especially on South America, India, and the Arctic.