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Planning and Management of Cross-Sectoral Programs: Strategies to Address NCDs

Ligia de Salazar
- pp 217-235
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In this article, the authors describe, analyze, and recommend approaches and technologies to improve the response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and risk factors, based on past experiences and new challenges especially for developing countries.
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This chapter intends to describe, analyze, and recommend approaches and technologies to improve the response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and risk factors, based on past experiences and new challenges especially for developing countries. The recommendations include key issues to design, implement, and evaluate population-based interventions addressing chronic NCDs, responding to questions such as the following: Why interventions addressing NCDs have not produced the expected results, especially in developing countries? What strategies and tools have contributed to the successful planning and implementation of effective interventions?

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Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Resilience: What Have We Learned from a Decade of International Literature on “Integration”?

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between knowledge integration and social-ecological system resilience and critical features of knowledge integration practice needed to foster productive and mutually beneficial relationships between indigenous knowledge and science.
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Governance of complex environmental situations through social learning: a synthesis of SLIM's lessons for research, policy and practice

TL;DR: In this article, the SLIM project findings are used to develop and deploy knowledge and research that is useful for actions that transform at socially and ecologically meaningful scales, and a diagnostic framework is elaborated that aims to transform the findings into a tool that could bring stakeholders, in other contexts, to understand better their own roles in complex natural resource management situations.

Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Science in Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Australia Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Resilience: What Have We Learned from a Decade of International Literature on "Integration"?

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