Cesar Gamboa: Threats to the Amazon: Fire and Infrastructure
Presented by: Cesar Gamboa - Executive Director, Derechos, Ambiente, y Recursos Naturales (Peru)
Presented by: Cesar Gamboa - Executive Director, Derechos, Ambiente, y Recursos Naturales (Peru)
Presented by: Jose Martinez-Diaz - Director of Engagement, Greenpeace USA
Extractives@Clark organized two paper sessions Contemporary extractivism in Latin America 1: Representations and Reconceptualizations This panel explores manifestations of contemporary extractivism in Latin America, as well the ways in which it can be conceptualized and represented. Extractivism goes beyond extractive industries (mining, oil, and gas) and may be better understood as a logic of rent […]
Protected areas and other area-based governance systems are a cornerstone of conservation efforts. When well-designed and managed, these systems can reduce habitat and biodiversity loss, mitigate carbon emissions, and alleviate […]
Extractives@Clark presents Andrew Curley (Diné) In 2021 the Navajo Generating Station, a long standing symbol of coal energy in the southwest, was demolished. The power plant ended operations the previous […]
Laudato Si' Research Institute A multidisciplinary conference exploring the disproportionate impact of ecological degradation on women, with a special focus on environmental and gender injustice such as that arising from […]
"Extractives and GIS: Solar Panel Fields and Forest Loss in Massachusetts/ Uganda-Tanga Crude Oil Pipeline Potential Impact" Click here to access the Zoom link John Rogan - Professor at […]
Speaker: Felipe Milanez, Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society, of the Federal University of Bahia, […]
Once the realm of science fiction fantasy, the prospect of huge machines being lowered onto fragile deep seabed ecosystems to mine for metals is now only two years away from […]
South American scholars and activists have proposed buen vivir and post-extractivism as utopian paradigms of alternative nature/society relationships rooted in indigenous knowledges. This talk reassesses and modifies these abstract concepts, proposing […]
The Blackstone Commons Expedition — a 60-mile, four-day paddle along the Blackstone River, from Worcester to Providence, organized by the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative at Clark University — will kick off with a press event at the Blackstone Heritage Corridor Visitor Center.
The Blackstone Commons Expedition will conclude with a final celebration at Narragansett Brewing in Providence, including a screening of the short film “Kittacuck Speaks” and a program of speakers.