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CARES - Center for Applied Research & Environmnetal Systems |
 | | CI and the University of Missouri’s Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES) are teaming up to offer their combined experiences and tools to support community improvement efforts. For over 15 years, CARES has integrated the social, physical, and biological sciences to better understand environmental, natural resource and human issues and solutions. The Center utilizes the latest technologies in geographic information systems, satellite imagery, environmental modeling, and the internet to compile, analyze and distribute information about our world. |
| CARES provides organizations and communities with facilitation technologies to improve decision making. Communities, governments and organizations increasingly rely on data and geographic information technologies to examine the place-based impacts of public policies; however, they often lack the time, the expertise or the technological infrastructure to make the best use of these resources for decision-making. CARES produces technologies that transcend these common constraints by providing tools for issues framing, facilitation, decision support, and data integration—see the Community Issues Management (CIM) tool. CARES’ tools allow decision makers to deliberate how best to align resources with organizations, people and “place.” CARES has demonstrated a strong commitment to helping governments, communities and non-profits around the world to establish and sustain healthy and whole communities. Dr. Chris Fulcher, Co-Director for CARES, serves as the primary liaison to CI. | | 
Chris FulcherCo-Director, CARES
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