This two-year, $217,923 National Science Foundation project grant funds collaborative research on human networks, sustainable development, and lived experience in a nonindustrial society. Led by researchers from multiple universities and tribal communities, the grantees will investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and quality of life over 800 years in the Southwestern United States. They will combine existing demographic, socioeconomic, health, and environmental data reconstructions into a single research platform and use this platform and network analysis approaches to examine how spatial properties of human networks influenced other aspects of human development, using UN Sustainable Development Goals indicators to assess sustainability and quality of life. The results will advance understanding of how sociospatial networks impact sustainability and well-being. This award falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields and monitoring science investments.
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