Study Area: The Commonwealth of Dominica... Read more..

Methods, Analysis, and Timescale: The research will use a multi-site approach, compiling data from four communities with variable market incorporation.  I will collect cross-sectional and longitudinal social network, behavioral, demographic, and macroeconomic data from ethnographic, census, and archival research.  Read more... 

Merit and Broad Impacts:   This research highlights interactions between global and local socioecology, promoting future research into howlarge-scale social inequality cultivates inequity at smaller scales.  Such research is especially cogent now as income gaps widen, economic forecasts become increasingly grim, and the fates of international markets, families, and communities become increasingly intertwined.  Read more... 

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