It addresses the challenge of sustainable development by advancing scientific understanding of human-environment systems; improving linkages between research and policy communities; and building capacity for linking knowledge with action to promote sustainability.
At present we are interested in research assistants to help with integrating social science and natural science data, including data processing and documentation for NASA data center work aimed at improving linkages between socioeconomic and Earth science data.
These include improving linkages between objectives, policies, and rules within land use plans; and strengthening the linkages between land use and emergency management plans.
These include improving linkages between policy and investment and crowding-in investment from the private sector – from farmers to corporations.
The Minister of Health has taken a keen interest in improving linkages between sectors to enhance inter-sectoral communication.
The intervention included a health system strengthening component and improving linkages between the community-based intervention and the health facilities.
Throughout the training, reference is made to the document Inclusive Business Models: Guidelines for improving linkages between producer groups and buyers of agricultural produce.
These included improving linkages between epidemiologic, laboratory, and clinical data sources; expanding private health care participation in surveillance activities; and strengthening capacity for infectious disease modeling.
Areas for improvement include: earlier diagnosis; improved linkages between specialist renal services and primary care in regional settings; more effective communication and patient education; and more systematic, transparent approaches to patient "compliance" in transplant and home dialysis guidelines.
This represents a potential starting point for empirically based SLA, however there must also be a priority to improve linkages between field protocol descriptions of SDT decay classes and component estimation procedures.
