User:Anonymouspandabear/Susanna Hecht


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' Susanna B. Hecht is an American geographer, a professor within the department Urban Planning at UCLA's School of Public Affairs'' and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Susanna Hecht is a renowned researcher whose publications specialize in tropical development and have implications to facing climate change, resource depletion, and globalization.

== Life and work [edit] Contributions to Political Ecology *I am debating making a section about her contributions to political ecology and then a separate section on her Amazon/deforestation work* == ''Susanna Hetcht's early work focused on the political economies of tropical development in Latin America. Hetcht's study area focuses around the Amazon Basin and her work has explored alternatives to harmful development practices, social movements and globalization, and analyzes effective conservation practices in the region . Hetcht's studies have garnered her a title as founder of the'' field, political ecology. This field, sometimes categorized as a subfield of geography or ecology; 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 the social and environmental processes of a particular geographic region and to encourage a more encompassing understanding of those links. the influence it has on the world around it as well as how the world impacts the region

Deforestation/Amazon Work
''A facet of Dr. Hecht's research is understanding the theoretical and institutional influences of deforestation and also alternatives to deforestation. Hecht has investigated the macropolitics of deforestation in the Amazon to better understand local outcomes of conservation practices, by exploring the macro and micro politics of local processes - Hecht has contributed a better understanding and development plan to create solutions to large scale impacts of tropical development. Hecht's research taps into many disciplines such as soil science, ethnography, agroecology, economics history and remote sensing.''

Publications
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. ''More recently, Hecht authored The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides Da Cunha telling the story of Euclides da Cunha's expedition on the Amazon River while working to produce his synthetic of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Hecht's The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides Da Cunha was awarded “Best Book in Environmental History” from the American Historical Association in 2015. In addition to her academic work, she has also written popular articles for the Nation, New Left Review and Fortune'' magazine.

Life and Education
Hecht received her A.B. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2008 and has received fellowships and grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trust, the MacArthur Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and many others. She has also been a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

In 2018, she was awarded the David Livingstone Centenary Medal of the American Geographical Society.