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Susanna B. Hecht

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39

Publications

5.5K

Citations

31

H-Index

1981

Active since

Affiliations

University of California, Los Angeles(Current)

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Institute of the Environment

Clark University

Amazon (United States)

Susanna B. Hecht is an author at University of California, Los Angeles specializing in geography, agricultural economics, and land use.

Top concepts

GeographySocial SciencesLand UseAgricultural EconomicsDeforestationForestryPublic HealthReforestationLand DegradationSustainable Agriculture

Publications per year

1981–2024

39

Publications

39

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

Thomas K. Rudel, Laura Schneider, María Uriarte et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 587 citations · Full text

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon.

Janice Coffey Swab, Susanna B. Hecht, Alexander Cockburn · Systematic Botany · 1990 · 523 citations

Historical Geography, Colonialism, Latin American Study +16

Environment, development and politics: Capital accumulation and the livestock sector in Eastern Amazonia

Susanna B. Hecht · World Development · 1985 · 468 citations

Rural Economy, Land Use, Development Economics +17

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

Bernardo M. Flores, Encarni Montoya, Boris Sakschewski et al. · Nature · 2024 · 423 citations · Full text

The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia

Susanna B. Hecht · BioScience · 1993 · 265 citations

Reforestation, Economics, Land Use +14

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