The proposed development of the US$ 3.6 billion Chancay Multipurpose Port Project in Peru will establish the largest, deep-water port on South America’s Pacific Coast. This new mega-port will generate impacts in the surrounding city and adjacent areas due to increased economic activity. However, it is the capacity of the port to move massive amounts of bulk cargo—including from and across the western Amazon—that makes it imperative to identify and analyze broader risks and impacts. Marsh Institute Researchers Denise Humphreys Bebbington (Sustainability and Social Justice) and John Rogan (Geography) received funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the project Analysis of the Potential Social and Environmental Impacts of the Chancay Mega-Port and Large-scale Landscape Change in the Peruvian Amazon, which will identify and analyze potential social and environmental impacts resulting from the proposed mega-port.

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