Clearcut

Political Economies of Deforestation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvMarkus Kröger,Markus Kröger,Markus (University of Helsinki) Kroger

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-02
Mått175 x 250 x 22 mm
Vikt761 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor326
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009389549

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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.

'Over the last two decades from his perch in Helsinki, Markus Kröger has penned some of the most illuminating work on forests, frontiers, and industrial tree plantations. In Clearcut he draws together a wealth of exceptionally rich fieldwork from both Latin America and Scandinavia to offer a capacious and global theory of deforestation that links distinctive regional political economic dynamics to different varieties of extractive capitalism. Central to his innovative and provocative study are the particularities of extractive sectors - plantations, ranching, mining - that both depend upon and propel large-scale deforestation to potentially catastrophic tipping points. Clearcut is comparative political economy of the highest order, shining light on contrasting deforestation trajectories, on the role of regionally specific class configurations, and on what he calls the role of enabling and resisting moral economies. It is a magnificent achievement.' Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley