Klaus Ramalho von Behr

Klaus Ramalho von Behr is a Ph.D. candidate in Sustainable Development at the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasília, same institution where he also completed his master's degree. He holds a bachelor's degree in History from the State University of Campinas, where he also studied Philosophy for one year.

His master's research focused on the relationship between conspiratorial climate denialism and populism during the Bolsonaro administration. In his Ph.D thesis, Behr seeks to understand these conspiracy theories as a diffuse expression of the fear of the end of development-particularly a development based on territorial expansion, specifically over the Amazon biome. His hypothesis is that Bolsonaro's conspiratorial and reactionary climate populism represents a 'retrotopia' of a past that promised a better future than the current 'dystopian' future of the climate emergency.

Behr has interests in political ecology, environmental history, political theory, ecological transition, crisis of democracy, conspiracy theories and populism.