Looking back, looking forward: Methodological challenges and future directions in research on persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

Within the context of the Special Interest Research Group (SIRG) on Persons with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD), researchers often discuss the methodological problems and challenges they are confronted with. The aim of the current article was to give an overview of these challenges. The challenges are centred on six topics. These reflect the main components of a study's design: (a) participant demarcation, (b) participant recruitment, (c) data collection and instruments, (d) data analysis, (e) ethics/including the “voice” of persons with PIMD and (f) theoretical models. Next, to describing the specific challenges, possible solutions and pathways to address them are discussed. These are illustrated by recent studies by the authors and other researchers in the field. The current contribution wants to stimulate further discussion and ex-change of ideas, and the development of creative research techniques

Connecting the dots in integrated water management : a critical analysis of a tangled concept

Contains fulltext : 107671.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 30 mei 2013Promotores : Hendriks, A.J., Keulartz, F.W.J. Co-promotor : Lenders, H.J.R.222 p

BIO-SAFE 2.0: Een instrument voor effectenbeoordeling bij uiterwaardherinrichting. Toepassing van BIO-SAFE 2.0 in Flora en Faunawet, Natuurbeschermingswet en m.e.r.

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The duality of integrated water management: science, policy or both?

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Developing an effective adaptive monitoring network to support integrated coastal management in a multiuser nature reserve

Contains fulltext : 144864.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)We elaborate the necessary conceptual and strategic elements for developing an effective adaptive monitoring network to support Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) in a multiuser nature reserve in the Dutch Wadden Sea Region. We discuss quality criteria and enabling actions essential to accomplish and sustain monitoring excellence to support ICM. The Wadden Sea Long-Term Ecosystem Research project (WaLTER) was initiated to develop an adaptive monitoring network and online data portal to better understand and support ICM in the Dutch Wadden Sea Region. Our comprehensive approach integrates ecological and socioeconomic data and links research-driven and policy-driven monitoring for system analysis using indicators of pressures, state, benefits, and responses. The approach and concepts we elaborated are transferable to other coastal regions to accomplish ICM in complex social-ecological systems in which scientists, multisectoral stakeholders, resource managers, and governmental representatives seek to balance long-term ecological, economic, and social objectives within natural limits.12 p

Effluent standards for developing countries: combining the technology-and water quality-based approach

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How to structure and prioritize information needs to optimize monitoring for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

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The dynamics of interdisciplinary research fields – the case of river

Interdisciplinarity results from dynamics at two levels. Firstly, research questions are approached using inputs from a variety of disciplinary fields. Secondly, the results of this multidisciplinary research feed back into the various research fields. This may either contribute to the further development of these fields, or may lead to disciplinary reconfiguration. If the latter is the case, a new interdisciplinary field may emerge. Following this perspective, the scientific landscape of river research and river science is mapped to assess to which current river research is a multi-disciplinary endeavor, and to which extent it results in a new emerging (inter)disciplinary field of river science. The paper suggests that this two level approach is a useful method to study interdisciplinary research and, more generally, disciplinary dynamics. With respect to river research, we show that it is mainly performed in several fields (limnology, fisheries & fish research, hydrology & water resources, and geomorphology) that hardly exchange knowledge. The different river research topics are multidisciplinary in nature, as they are shared by different fields. However, river science does not emerge as an interdisciplinary field, and often-mentioned new interdisciplinary fields such as hydroecology or hydromorphology are not (yet) visible. There is hardly any involvement of social within river research. Finally, the field of ecology occupies a central position within river research, whereas an expected engineering field is shown absent. This together may signal the acceptance of the ecosystem-based paradigm in river management, replacing the traditional engineering paradigm. © 2014 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary

Redefinition and elaboration of river ecosystem health: perspective for river management

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