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Scobie is a member of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. The research was supported by the Belmont Forum through the Research Council of Norway and the UK\u2019s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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