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Description:

The 2023 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography is presented to Dr. Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies in the Department of Urban Planning at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. In celebration of her legacy of creative historical and geographical work, Dr. Hecht will participate in a conversation with Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins, deputy division director of the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) of the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Hecht has dedicated herself to advancing the understanding of the political ecologies, present dynamics, and history of deforestation and reforestation in the Amazon. She has contributed critical research toward changing the policies and market incentives that caused widespread, destructive deforestation in previous decades, shedding light on more than a century of forest and land use change in the Amazon, and helping to determine a path for renewal and protection.

The Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography is presented annually to an individual geographer or team who has demonstrated originality, creativity, and significant intellectual breakthroughs in geography. Previous awardees have included Kathryn Yusoff, Dawn Wright, Brian Berry, Janice Monk, Mei-Po Kwan, David Harvey, Michael Goodchild, Susan Hansen, Robert Kates, and the inaugural recipient, Yi-Fu Tuan.

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