Projects

Current project

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

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Chancay-Amazon Connection

Find the Spanish report “Desde Chancay a la Amazonia: panorama de expectativas, retos y oportunidades”. The Chancay-Amazon Connection Research Project seeks to promote a comprehensive understanding of the development of the Port of Chancay and its implications for the Amazon, considering the various processes of economic, environmental and territorial transformation it may generate, as well as […]

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(Spanish version)

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

Past projects

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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