Main Seminar: Book Launch: Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics

Convenors: Eduardo Posada-Carbo & Felipe Krause

Speaker: Gregory M. Thaler, LAC and School of Geography

Discussants: Professor Laura Rival, Oxford Department of International Development and Raisa Pina, Global Canopy

Gregory M. Thaler is an Associate Professor of Environmental Geography and Latin American Studies in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the School of Geography and the Environment. His research examines the political ecology and political economy of development, global environmental governance, and agrarian politics. His new book draws on six years of research on agrarian frontiers in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bolivia to reveal the ecological destruction behind global attempts to reconcile industrial agriculture with forest conservation.