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Current project<\/h2>\n\n\n \n
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Chancay-Amazon Connection Research Project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Clark researchers are studying how Peru\u2019s Chancay megaport could drive infrastructure expansion into the Amazon, with potential impacts on deforestation, habitat loss, and extractive activities in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Download Second Project Peru Report<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Find the Spanish report \u201cDesde Chancay a la Amazonia: panorama de\u00a0expectativas, retos y oportunidades<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Past projects<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The direction of the megaprojects between Chancay and the Amazon<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

This second report from the Conexi\u00f3n Chancay-Amazonia Consortium deepens the analysis begun in its first publication and examines key large-scale infrastructure proposals aimed at connecting the Port of Chancay with the Peruvian Amazon and Brazil, including the Southern Interoceanic Highway, the Amazon Waterway, as well as connections between Pucallpa (Peru) and Brazil, and the Bioceanic […]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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Ford Grant Highlights Fall 2024 & Spring 2025<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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2019-2022: National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A study of tropical forest loss integrating geospatial and qualitative data to model infrastructure, investment flows, and environmental governance.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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2015 – 2019: Climate Land Use Alliance<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Assessment and scoping of infrastructure and extractive industries in relation to deforestation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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2015 – 2018: Governing Extractive Industries<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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2015 – 2016: Oxfam America and Oxfam Honduras<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Territorios en Riesgo<\/strong>
\nThe expansion of mineral extraction in Honduras is reshaping resource access, livelihoods, and conservation efforts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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2012 – 2014: Oxfam America<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Geographies of Conflict<\/strong>
A Clark University\u2013Oxfam America report mapping overlaps between mining, hydrocarbons, and agriculture in Ghana and Peru.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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2010 – 2014: Ford Foundation<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Extractive Industries, social conflict and institutional innovations in the Andes-Amazon region.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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