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This book provides an intersectoral analysis of the political, socio-economic, and moral causes of deforestation across Brazil, Peru, and Finland. It will be valuable for advanced students, researchers, and policy makers working in (de)forestation, environmental studies, economics, conservation, climate change, and sustainability.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
This book provides an intersectoral analysis of the political, socio-economic, and moral causes of deforestation across Brazil, Peru, and Finland. It will be valuable for advanced students, researchers, and policy makers working in (de)forestation, environmental studies, economics, conservation, climate change, and sustainability.
Foreword
This book provides an intersectoral analysis of the political, socio-economic, and moral causes of deforestation in Brazil, Peru, Finland.
