Susanna Hecht, professor of urban planning at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been selected to receive the Carl O. Sauer Award, given annually by the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. It is given to "leading authorities" for "a corpus of important published work or other significant contribution towards Latin American geography," according to the conference. Hecht, whose work on the deforestation of the Amazon basin led to the founding of the field of political ecology, most recently wrote “The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha”.

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