Clearcut
political economies of deforestation
$405.82
- Hardcover
330 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2025
Summary
Clearcut: Unmasking the Global Forces Behind Deforestation
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009389549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009389548 |
| Author: | Markus Kröger |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 330 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Markus Kröger
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.
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