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SUMMARY:IoES/Luskin Research Seminar: Susanna Hecht
DESCRIPTION:“Forest Recovery”  Forest dynamics in Latin America tropics now take directionsthat no one would have predicted a decade ago. Deforestation in the Brazilian\nAmazon has dropped by over 84%\,  and is\ndown by a third in Central America if not more. Forest resurgence—increasing\nforest cover in inhabited landscapes or abandoned lands— also is  a highly noticeable process\, and one barely\non the radar. Increasingly wooded working landscapes are now more valorized for\ntheir livelihood\, environmental and \nconservation services. Urban dwellers in the mid tier towns are highly\ndependent on rural resources and labor markets giving different kinds of\neconomic and livelihood ;logics to forested landscape in what has been\ntermed  ?The new rurality?. These\ndramatic shifts suggest quite profound and rapid transformations of the\nagrarian worlds\, and imply that previous models of understanding rural\nenvironmental dynamics  (and urbanization\npatters) merit significant review centering less on field agriculture and more\non emergent forest regimes. Much has been made of analyzing deforestation\ndrivers\, which were largely products of Latin America’s Authoritarian time but\nfar less attention has been paid to the implications of forest recovery and wooded landscapes which emerged through the rise of\nnew forms of governance\, markets\, migration and “Neo-liberalization”\nof nature. New institutional framings\, ideologies\, political decentralization\,\nglobalizations and migrations and an expanded arena for new social movements\nand civil society provided the context for this transformation as did cheap food policies imports that\nundermined local wage food production. Finally\, the rise of\nenvironmental economies monetized forest landscapes\, although\nnot necessarily equitably. These point to significant changes in tropical\nnatures of the 21st century. About the speaker:Professor Hecht is a specialist on tropical development in Latin America\, especially the Amazon Basin and Central America. Her research focuses on the political economies of development ranging from corporate frontiers of cattle and export commodity agriculture (like soy\, oil palm) to populist land occupation. She also studies their comparative environmental and social impacts. She also explores alternatives to destructive development\, and analyzes the forms of conservation in inhabited landscapes whether through indigenous technologies\, non timber extractive products\, niche markets as well as new tenurial forms (such as extractive reserves)\, social movements and globalization\, including the role of remittances and migratory networks in reshaping rural land uses. The impacts of emerging green markets and greenhouse gas offsets for smaller scale farmers also form part of her research concerns.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/ioes-luskin-research-seminar-susanna-hecht/
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