Publications

Book

Thaler, Gregory M. (2024) Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

Potiguar, Manoel Rodrigues Silva, Carlos Valério A. Gomes, and Gregory M. Thaler. (2025) “Fisheries Agreements and Transformative Governance in the Amazon Estuary: Between State Rules and Self-Organization.” Ecology and Society 30 (2): 26.

Ritter, Ellie and Gregory M. Thaler. (2023) “Technical Reform or Radical Justice? Environmental Discourse in Non-Governmental Organizations.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 6 (3): 2071-2095. Full dataset available here.

Thaler, Gregory M. (2021) “Ethnography of Environmental Governance: Towards an Organizational Approach.” Geoforum 120: 122-131.

Thaler, Gregory M. (2021) “Equifinality in the Smallholder Slot: Cash Crop Development in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesian Borneo.” Comparative Politics 53 (4): 687-722.

Partelow, Stefan, Klara Johanna Winkler, and Gregory M. Thaler (2020) “Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations and Global Environmental Discourse.” PLOS ONE 15 (5): e0232945.

Thaler, Gregory M., Cecilia Viana, and Fabiano Toni (2019) “From Frontier Governance to Governance Frontier: The Political Geography of Brazil’s Amazon Transition.” World Development 114: 59-72.

Schmink, Marianne, Jeffrey Hoelle, Carlos Valério Gomes, and Gregory M. Thaler (2019) “From Contested to ‘Green’ Frontiers in the Amazon? A Long-Term Analysis of São Félix do Xingu, Brazil.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 46 (2): 377-399.

Thaler, Gregory M. (2017) “The Land Sparing Complex: Environmental Governance, Agricultural Intensification, and State Building in the Brazilian Amazon.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107 (6): 1424-43.

Thaler, Gregory M. and Cut Augusta Mindry Anandi (2017) “Shifting Cultivation, Contentious Land Change and Forest Governance: The Politics of Swidden in East Kalimantan.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 44 (5): 1066-87.

Thaler, Gregory M. (2015) “The Twenty-First Century Agricultural Land Rush.” in The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics and Society, edited by Ronald J. Herring, 822-43. New York: Oxford University Press.