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Markus Kröger, professor of Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki and co-PI of the Trees For Development project was this month's guest on the . Markus joined the show to about his new book from University of Cambridge Press, Clearcut: Political Economies of Deforestation. This open access book will be published in October 2025. Markus gives us a sneak peek into the key topics of the book, primarily the mechanisms of regionally dominant political economies (RDPE) and the role they play in driving extractive sectors. To make this novel theorization, Markus looked at cattle capitalism in Brazil, narco-gold in the Amazon, and paper pulping in Finland. Markus shows how these three different RDPEs drive deforestation in their respective locations.