Susanna Hecht

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Susanna Hecht is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Susanna Hecht

Earth Sciences

#421

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#748

Historical Rank

#169

USA Rank

Geography

#88

World Rank

#168

Historical Rank

#24

USA Rank

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Susanna Hecht's Degrees

PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Geography University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Susanna B. Hecht is an American geographer, professor of Urban Planning at UCLA and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Life and work Her early work on the deforestation of the Amazon led to the founding of the subfield of political ecology. This subfield of geography embraces sociology, economics, history, literature, ecology, environmental studies and a wide variety of other fields in an effort to paint a more intricate picture of a particular geographic region and the influence it has on the world around it as well as how the world impacts the region. The Amazon rain forest is her primary subject of inquiry and she is the co-author of the book, Fate of the Forest: Destroyers, Developers and Defenders of the Amazon with Alexander Cockburn, originally published in 1990, but which has been updated and reissued by the University of Chicago Press in 2010. In 2004, Fate of the Forest was named one of the most influential books in cultural geography by the American Association of Geography. The book has become a classic text in environmental studies, and has won numerous awards. She is widely considered a preeminent authority on forest transition and sustainable agriculture. In addition to her academic work, she has also written popular articles for the Nation, New Left Review and Fortune magazine.

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Susanna Hecht's Published Works

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The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon (1990) (657)
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005 (2009) (533)
Human Impact on Ancient Environments (1999) (527)
Environment, Development and Politics: Capital Accumulation and the Livestock Sector in Eastern Amazonia (1985) (432)
The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia (1993) (259)
Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics in El Salvador (2006) (258)
Soybeans, Development and Conservation on the Amazon Frontier (2005) (232)
Globalization and Forest Resurgence: Changes in Forest Cover in El Salvador (2007) (197)
The new rurality: Globalization, peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes (2010) (165)
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production: globalization, intensification and neo-nature in South America (2016) (156)
Agroecology and small farm development. (1990) (151)
Clearance and Fragmentation of Tropical Deciduous Forest in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (2001) (144)
The Subsidy from Nature: Shifting Cultivation, Successional Palm Forests, and Rural Development (1988) (142)
The ecological rationality of peasant production. (1990) (110)
The economics of cattle ranching in eastern Amazonia (1984) (97)
The Diversity and Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation: Myths, Realities, and Policy Implications (1997) (83)
Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayapó Indians (1989) (82)
From eco-catastrophe to zero deforestation? Interdisciplinarities, politics, environmentalisms and reduced clearing in Amazonia (2011) (82)
Forests lost and found in tropical Latin America: the woodland ‘green revolution’ (2014) (81)
Indigenous Soil Management and the Creation of Amazonian Dark Earths: Implications of Kayapó Practice (2003) (73)
The Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence (2014) (71)
People in motion, forests in transition: Trends in migration, urbanization, and remittances and their effects on tropical forests (2015) (67)
Deforestation in the Amazon Basin: magnitude, dynamics and soil resource effects (1981) (66)
Indigenous agroforestry systems in the Latin American tropics. (1990) (52)
Rapid rural appraisal and agroecosystem analysis. (1990) (48)
Amazonia: Agriculture and Land Use Research (1984) (43)
The new Amazon geographies: insurgent citizenship, “Amazon Nation” and the politics of environmentalisms (2011) (43)
Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: neglected knowledge of native peoples. (1990) (42)
Human Impacts on Amazonia: The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development (2007) (38)
Factories, Forests, Fields and Family: Gender and Neoliberalism in Extractive Reserves (2007) (36)
Agroforestry in the Amazon Basin: practice, theory and limits of a promising land use (1981) (35)
Agroecology and rural development in Latin America. (1990) (27)
Kayapó Savanna Management: Fire, Soils, and Forest Islands in a Threatened Biome (2009) (25)
Chapter 1. Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability (2016) (23)
The Evolution of Agroecological Thought (2018) (22)
Potential of multiple cropping systems. (1990) (22)
Crop genetic diversity and its conservation in traditional agroecosystems. (1990) (22)
Opinion: Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics (2020) (18)
The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha (2013) (18)
Small farmers' participation in the design of technologies. (1990) (18)
Can multifunctional livelihoods including recreational ecosystem services (RES) and non timber forest products (NTFP) maintain biodiverse forests in the Brazilian Amazon? (2018) (17)
Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change (2018) (15)
Europe and the people without history (2018) (11)
The Last Unfinished Page of Genesis: Euclides da Cunha and the Amazon (2008) (10)
The ecology and management of traditional farming systems. (1990) (10)
Firing up: Policy, politics and polemics under new and old burning regimes (2019) (9)
New crops for small farmers in marginal lands? Wild chiles as a case study. (1990) (9)
Indigenous approaches to rural development: the agrarian populist tradition in West Africa. (1990) (8)
Defenders of the Amazon (1990) (8)
From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices (2014) (8)
Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 , written by Andrew Sluyter (2016) (8)
Women's role in small farm agriculture. (1990) (7)
Realpolitik, Reality and Rhetoric in Rio (1992) (7)
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production (2018) (7)
Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths (2021) (7)
The Agroecosystem: Determinants, Resources, Processes, and Sustainability (2018) (7)
Small-scale agriculture in Southeast Asia. (1990) (7)
Agroforestry: an approach to sustainable land use in the tropics. (1990) (7)
The farming systems research and extension approach to small farmer development. (1990) (6)
Domestication, domesticated landscapes, and tropical natures (2017) (6)
Executive summary of the report "Bending the Curve: 10 scalable solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability" (2015) (6)
How Eden Lost its Garden (2000) (6)
The new rurality (2008) (6)
The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions (2014) (5)
The social and cultural dynamics of traditional agricultural communities. (1990) (5)
The Natures of Progress: Land Use Dynamics and Forest Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012) (5)
Lessons of the Rainforest@@@The Fate of the Forest: Developments, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (1990) (5)
Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions (2014) (4)
Cattle Ranching in the Eastern Amazon: Environmental and Social Implications (2019) (4)
The dynamics of peasant agriculture in Latin America: implications for rural development and agroecology. (1990) (3)
From “Green Hell” to “Amazonia Legal”: Land use models and the re-imagination of the rainforest as a new development frontier (2020) (3)
Latin American Center Symposium on Environment and Health: Exploring Natural Products (2005) (3)
Smallholders, forest management and rural development in the Amazon (2015) (3)
Extraction, Gender and Neoliberalism in the Western Amazon (2005) (3)
Where slaves ruled (2012) (3)
The ecology of traditional agroecosystems in Africa. (1990) (3)
Migration, rural livelihoods & natural resource management (2012) (3)
Logics of Livestock and Deforestation: The Case of Amazonia (2019) (3)
Chapter 10. Trees have Already been Invented: Carbon in Woodlands (2016) (3)
From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence (2014) (2)
Why the Brazilian Amazon Burns (2020) (2)
The industrial model and impacts on small farmers: the Green Revolution as a case. (1990) (2)
Toward Sustainable Agriculture (2018) (2)
Gender issues in agricultural technology development. (1990) (2)
Amazonia, agriculture and land use research : proceedings of the International Conference (1982) (2)
The Sacred Cow (1989) (2)
Crop development in centers of domestication: a case study of Andean potato agriculture. (1990) (2)
Crop Rotation and Minimum Tillage (2018) (1)
The multiple viewpoints for the Amazon: geographic limits and meanings (2021) (1)
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths (2021) (1)
Agricultural development systems in Latin America: a historical perspective. (1990) (1)
Murder at the Margins of the World (1989) (1)
The New Rurality: Globalization, Peasants and the Paradoxes of Landscapes A nova ruralidade: globalização, camponeses e os paradoxos das paisagens (2008) (1)
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows (2021) (1)
Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation (2002) (1)
What is biodiversity worth (2007) (1)
Introduction to the English-Language Edition: (2021) (1)
Generating Sustainable Technologies Appropriate to Alternative Farming (2018) (0)
How Eden Lost Its Garden@@@Human Impact on Ancient Environments (2000) (0)
APPENDIX B. Interview with Darrell Posey (2019) (0)
Emerging hot spot analysis to indicate forest conservation priorities and efficacy on regional to continental scales: a study of forest change in Selva Maya 2000–2020 (2022) (0)
Human Environmental Impacts Introducer: Susanna B. Hecht (2021) (0)
APPENDIX G. A Note on Parks, the Origins of Yosemite and the Expulsions of Native Americans (2019) (0)
Indigenous Soil Management in the Amazon Basin: Some Implications for Development (2019) (0)
FOUR. The Amazon Prospectus (2019) (0)
Heather F. Roller. Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil. (2016) (0)
Homage to Clio and Santa Rosalia: History, Epic and Evolution / Homenagem a Clio e Santa Rosalia: História, Epopeia e Evolução (2017) (0)
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: a meditation on Nietschmann’s cultural ecology and politics of history (2015) (0)
Cover Cropping and Mulching (2018) (0)
APPENDIX E. Forest Peoples' Manifesto (2019) (0)
APPENDIX D. Interview with Father Michael Feeney (2019) (0)
APPENDIX C. Interview with Osmarino Amancio Rodrigues (2019) (0)
Glossary of Plant Names (2019) (0)
Q&A: Susanna Hecht - eScholarship (2012) (0)
Designing Sustainable Agroecosystems (2018) (0)
Book reviews: MacMillan, G. 1995: At the end of the rainbow? Gold, land and people in the Brazilian Amazon. London: Earthscan. 180 pp. £12.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85383 232 4 (1996) (0)
Beyond Fordlândia: An Environmental Account of Henry Ford’s Adventure in the Amazon. Directed by Marcos Colón (2019) (0)
Glossary of Portuguese Terms (2019) (0)
Plant Disease Ecology and Management (2018) (0)
SIX. The Generals' Blueprint (2019) (0)
Migration and Natural Resource Management : Lessons across the Globe; final narrative report, October 1, 2010 – April 30, 2012 (2012) (0)
No Easy Cliche: Communities and Reserve Conservation (1995) (0)
Ecologically Based Agricultural Development Programs (2018) (0)
APPENDIX F. Seven Beliefs, True and False, about the Amazon (2019) (0)
Perspectives on Biodiversity: Case Studies of Genetic Resource Conservation and Development.Christopher S. Potter , Joel I. Cohen , Dianne Janczewski (1995) (0)
SEVEN.The Furies Unleashed (2019) (0)
NINE. The Ecology of Justice (2019) (0)
Cultural Survival In Post‐Contact Amazonia (2006) (0)
Myths, epistemes, and policy in tropical conservation : of fates, forests and futures (1993) (0)
Weed Ecology and Management. (2018) (0)

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