Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America - LAP Special Issue

[Claudia Horn]

Gep-Ed Colleagues,

I am pleased to share the latest special issue of Latin American Perspective, titled 'Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America'. This is a useful read ahead of COP30 and is the first issue entirely dedicated to the Pan-Amazon. It features articles from authors across the region discussing topics ranging from mega-projects to indigenous rights and green extractivism. It was a pleasure to guest-edit this with Felipe Antunes and Fernando Rugitsky, and to contribute a curated selection of poems and fragments from Pará.

 

All best,

Claudia

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Claudia Horn, PhD (ORCID)

Lecturer in Political Economy

Department of European and International Studies, King's College London

5.02, 57 Aldwych, North West Wing, Bush House, WC2B 4PA

2026. Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium. OR Books

2025. Klimahilfe Mit Nebenwirkungen. Kooperation Und Konflikt Im Namen Des Amazonas-Schutzes. Oekom.

2025. Words from the Earth. Poems and Fragments on Contemporary Life in the Amazon. Latin American Perspectives (with J. Viana, J. Silva, J. de Miranda Matos, T. Kazu, and T. Batista)

2025. "The Multiple Amazon." Introduction to the Special Issue of Latin American Perspectives (co-edited and authored with F. Antunes de Oliveira and F. Rugitsky)

2025. ‘Green Capitalism Against Democracy: The Bioeconomy Plan in Pará: As COP30 Approaches’, NACLA Report on the Americas.

2025. “Valuing Forests, but Not the Labor That Protects Them: International Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Brazilian Amazon.” The Journal of Peasant Studies

2024. ‘The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry: Brazil’s Green Currency’, Development and Change

2023. 'Brazil's Amazon Fund: A “Green Fix” between Offset Pressures and Deforestation Crisis', Antipode