The challenges to govern natural resources in a sustainable manner while acknowledging their inter-linkages and intergenerational fairness are enormous.
While the complete findings of the project are presented in [Parthasarathy and Ilavarasan (2007]), this paper only discusses those that relate to small firms and their inter-firm linkages.
In the last years, SNA has emerged as a fruitful tool to examine the involvement of actors within a given system (for a review see Lemieux and Ouimet 2004; Rivera et al 2010) and to map their inter-organisational linkages (Ter Wal and Boschma 2009).
The inclusion of nutrition in the health cluster ensured that the inter linkages between health and nutrition were well explored and properly addressed.
Additionally, further work needs to investigate the inter linkages between aggression control pathways and develop a greater understanding of sex related differences.
In the next section, we identify the existing literature of trade policies on transparency and free trade agreements which reveals a limited understanding on their important function and significant inter-linkages to trade growth.
Data mobilisation, built on foundations of acquisition, whether by digitisation or other means; curation and preservation; discovery and open access; and ability to process; with inter-linkages and names playing their central roles is thus an essential strategic goal but one that has to be expressed as being for the explicit purpose.
The inter-linkages of the transparency practices and FTA exhibit their significance in trade policy, which are important for trading countries in advancing their trade activity by including provision for these policy measures that have a major influence to heighten growth in trade.
A deeper investigation of their determinants technologies, inter-industry linkages, institutional factors would be interesting from both the theoretical and the applicative perspective.
The financial crisis has revealed the extent of the inter-linkages among markets, making it apparent that cross-border dealings require regulation.
We urgently need an integrated understanding of the processes that account for the inter-linkages between the economy, demography, technology, environment, climate, human development, all global commons and planetary boundaries.
