I am a research economist trained in agricultural and resource economics, with a focus on governance.  My work tends to be highly interdisciplinary, and I am interested in integrating social processes into economic analysis, with the goal of understanding the role of natural resource management in poverty alleviation and economic development. My experience is in designing theoretically-based empirical analysis of economic governance and natural resource management based on primary and secondary data collection. Extensive fieldwork in Mexico's common property forestry sector motivates much of my work on market participation, ownership and control of resources, and economic well-being. Other work includes research on law of seas, and, more recently, valuation of coastal environments.