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Markus Kröger

@markuskroger.bsky.social
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Professor of Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki. Research on the BRICS, natural resource politics, forestry, mining, agriculture, climate etc

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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New open-access, co-authored publication by a group of Amazon researchers: "Global responsibility for Amazon conservation: why soy, beef imports and agrochemical overuse demand urgent international action" Read it here! doi.org/10.1080/1474... @exaltresearch.bsky.social @treesfordev.bsky.social
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Global responsibility for Amazon conservation: why soy, beef imports and agrochemical overuse demand urgent international action
Published in Globalizations (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Podcast episode about deforestation & why it is so hard to cut it out!! Listen on Apple Podcasts or the podcatcher of your choice! podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/i... @exaltresearch.bsky.social
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Why is stopping deforestation so difficult? with Markus Kröger
Podcast Episode · Inconvenient Chats · 28 July · 44min
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Transformative resistances to extractivisms tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... New special issue and its introductory article are now out, with Third World Quarterly. Here the abstract, co-written with Anja Nygren and Barry Gills @exaltresearch.bsky.social
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region
This article explores the ways that illegal land grabbing has taken place in contemporary Brazil since 2003. The findings suggest that much more attention needs to be paid to the various forms of v...
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Clearcut Book Launch! youtu.be/jjj17DzxYKY?.... Larry Lohmann and I explore regionally dominant political economies & how we understand extractive sectors
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Clearcut Book Launch
YouTube video by EXALT Helsinki
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
What path dependencies determine if a forest is Clearcut? (Clearcut book discussion) EXALT Podcast, links below for listening: Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/4y9LgeP... @helsinki.fi @helsus.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Markus Kröger - What path dependencies determine if a forest is Clearcut? (Clearcut book discussion)
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New book: Clearcut: Political Economies of Deforestation www.cambridge.org/fi/universit... Offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the places, methods, reasons for, and timing of, deforestation -Assesses the distinct contexts, politics, and policies which influence extractivist sectors
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Clearcut | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Greenpeace Suomi @greenpeace.fi · 18/09/2025
Oletko miettinyt, miksi Amazon palaa? Haastattelimme Helsingin yliopiston globaalin kehitystutkimuksen professoria @markuskroger.bsky.social Amazonin sademetsän tuhoutumisen syistä. 👇
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New book coming out soon! Clearcut: Political Economies of Deforestation. @helsinki.fi www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Markus Kröger @markuskroger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.hs.fi/maailma/art-... www.hbl.fi/2025-02-03/v...
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Yhdysvallat | Trump laittoi Muskin sulkemaan kehitysyhteistyöviraston – ”Tätä voi pitää jonkinlaisena valtion kaappauksena”, sanoo professori
Kehitysyhteistyövirasto USAID on jakanut vuosittain kymmenien miljardien dollarien arvosta apua ulkomaille. Lisäksi virastolla on merkittävä rooli Yhdysvaltojen vaikutusvallan kasvattamisessa ympäri m...
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