Projects

Current project:

Assessing Impacts and Advancing Sustainable Connectivity Between the Pacific and the Amazon

chancy project - large container being built off shore of peru

Chancay-Amazon Connection Research Project

Clark researchers are studying how Peru’s Chancay megaport could drive infrastructure expansion into the Amazon, with potential impacts on deforestation, habitat loss, and extractive activities in the region.

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(Spanish version)

Find the Spanish report “Desde Chancay a la Amazonia: panorama de expectativas, retos y oportunidades”.

Past projects

Ford Grant Highlights Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

A summary of the center’s Ford-supported events from fall 2024 and spring 2025, including discussions on deforestation, climate justice, and political ecologies of oil conflict in Ecuador, among other exciting talks and events.

2019-2022: National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

A study of tropical forest loss integrating geospatial and qualitative data to model infrastructure, investment flows, and environmental governance.

2015 – 2019: Climate Land Use Alliance

Assessment and scoping of infrastructure and extractive industries in relation to deforestation.

2015 – 2018: Governing Extractive Industries

Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs.

2015 – 2016: Oxfam America and Oxfam Honduras

Territorios en Riesgo
The expansion of mineral extraction in Honduras is reshaping resource access, livelihoods, and conservation efforts.

2012 – 2014: Oxfam America

Geographies of Conflict
A Clark University–Oxfam America report mapping overlaps between mining, hydrocarbons, and agriculture in Ghana and Peru.

2010 – 2014: Ford Foundation

Extractive Industries, social conflict and institutional innovations in the Andes-Amazon region.

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