This dissertation is about the Wadden Sea Area in times of change. Conditions that predetermined the very existence of this distinct sea are now threatened by the sea level projected in the forthcoming 50-100 years. Therefore, this puts pressure on the water management to protect the area behind the …

Purpose eHealth projects in the Netherlands have various backgrounds. First, the number of persons aged 65 and over will have increased by 400,000 between 2008 and 20131. Over the same period, the potential workforce will have decreased from 4.2 persons at present to 3.6 persons for each 65 plus. Second, …

Conference organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, Hilscher Rezső Social Policy Association, Gyere Association and CARe Europe 3 Foreword 5 Section 1. Transition from institutional to recovery-oriented community care: challenges throughout Europe 5 Zsolt Bugarszki: Introduction 7 …

Full text via link One of the most important drivers of change in the health care sector is the desire of elderly people to age in place. The growing use of internet applications and communication technology together with innovations in buildings have created new commercial opportunities to cater the …

The purpose of the research was the development of a questionnaire that can measure the behaviour of groups of students (for instance departments' cohorts) in Personal Information Management (PIM). Variables for the questionnaire were derived from the international literature on PIM. The questionnaire …

In this dissertation, the changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty to Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) in order to address and improve the coherence of the EU's external action are examined. In order to understand the coherence problem that existed in the EU's external action before the Lisbon Treaty …

To many scholars and researchers in organisation and management studies, Bourdieu’s theory of practice as one of the grand sociological conceptual framework turns out to be an appealing toolkit to think with. What can Bourdieu’s theory of practice entail for moral climate theory as a relative new body …

PURPOSE: To examine the reproducibility of the institutional version of the Dutch Activity Card Sort (ACS-NL) and the possible presence of gender bias. METHODS: Older rehabilitation inpatients (N = 52) were included. Intra- and inter-rater agreement for the ACS-NL total and subscale scores was examined …

A comparative corporate level study between [three] institutional different certificate holders in Sweden, to determine the contribution of FSC on social/behavioral change (as a prerequisite for long term environmental impact), by following up CARs.

The in-depth assessment of the situation of the European textile and clothing sector is composed by six independent reports with a close focus on key aspects useful to understand the dynamics and the development of the textile and clothing industry, drivers of change – most notably the impact of the …