"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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'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 'Markus Kröger's breakthrough analysis significantly advances the understanding of how and why regional political economies are propelling deforestation. He offers novel insights into a fascinating array of cases, from cattle ranching and gold mining in the Amazon to the pulp and paper industry in Finland. Clearcut is going to be a foundational text for forest scholars and policymakers for decades to come.' Peter Dauvergne, Professor of International Relations, University of British Columbia 'Markus Kröger is a top world expert on deforestation. From his early knowledge of the cellulose and paper industry in Finland and its impacts around the world, he went on to do painstaking field work in other countries. In this innovative book he focuses again on Finland and also on the commodity extraction frontiers in the Amazon of Brazil and Peru, to develop a general theory of deforestation.' Joan Martínez Alier, ICTA-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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This book provides an intersectoral analysis of the political, socio-economic, and moral causes of deforestation in Brazil, Peru, Finland.
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.
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.
