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National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System (NARCIS) is the main Dutch national portal for those looking for information about researchers and their work. NARCIS aggregates data from around 30 institutional repositories. Besides researchers, NARCIS is also used by students, journalists and people working in educational and government institutions as well as the business sector.
NARCIS provides access to scientific information, including (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, datasets from some data archives as well as descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes.
This means that NARCIS cannot be used as an entry point to access complete overviews of publications of researchers (yet). However, there are more institutions that make all their scientific publications accessible via NARCIS. By doing so, it will become possible to create much more complete publication lists of researchers.
In 2004, the development of NARCIS started as a cooperation project of KNAW Research Information, NWO, VSNU and METIS, as part of the development of services within the DARE programme of SURFfoundation. This project resulted in the NARCIS portal, in which the DAREnet service was incorporated in January 2007. NARCIS has been part of DANS since 2011.
DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services - is the Netherlands Institute for permanent access to digital research resources. DANS encourages researchers to make their digital research data and related outputs Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
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Displaying 481 - 485 of 1863Multifunctionele Platforms op Zee, het concept, de wet en regelgeving en de lessen voor de toekomst
De mariene systemen en de kustzones worden steeds intensiever gebruikt voor verschillende functies. Hierdoor ontstaan nieuwe 'competing claims' op deze ruimte. Deze variëren van claims van natuur en biodiversiteit (zee-reservaten), vanuit de economie (visreservaten voor de visserij) tot het ontwikkelen van zones voor windmolens, boorplatforms, zandwinning, scheepvaart etc. Dit rapport geeft een beschrijving van een relatief nieuw fenomeen dat in opkomst is: Multifunctionele Platforms op Zee waarop maritieme activiteiten met elkaar zijn geclusterd op zee.
Analysis of vegetation-activity trends in a global land degradation framework
Land degradation is a global issue on a par with climate change and loss of biodiversity, but its extent and severity are only roughly known and there is little detail on the immediate processes – let alone the drivers. Earth-observation methods enable monitoring of land resources in a consistent, physical way and on global scale by making use of vegetation activity and/or cover as proxies. A well-known spectral proxy is the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which is available in high temporal resolution time series since the early 1980s.
Impact van onderwaterlawaai onderzocht
Vroeger was de enige menselijke activiteit op zee de scheepvaart. Maar de Noordzee krijgt steeds meer windmolenparken, pijpleidingen en olieplatforms, en er wordt bijvoorbeeld gebaggerd en seismisch onderzoek gedaan. Over de effecten van geluiden onder water op het leven in zee is echter nog weinig bekend. In samenwerking met de gas- en olie-industrie proberen onderzoekers van onder meer IMARES daar beter zicht op te krijgen.
A process for effective desertification mitigation
in these ecosystems can easily result in widespread and severe land degradation and thus desertification.
Combined with global issues such as climate change, economic disparities, migration, and competing claims
on land, this often leads to a vicious cycle of aridity, land degradation, and productivity loss. In addition to
the harsh environmental conditions limiting land productivity, the socio-economic situation in drylands can
pose challenges as well, given that these regions are often characterised by remoteness, marginality, lowproductivity
Scaling human-induced pressures to population level impacts in the marine environment : implementation of the prototype CUMULEO-RAM model
For centuries the Dutch coastal waters and the North Sea were primarily used for fisheries and shipping, but during the last 20 years the number of uses has increased rapidly. These human uses (such as wind farms, mineral extraction, coastal defences and fisheries) will lead to a decrease in biodiversity and a reduction in ecosystem and mineral resources. Under several European policies and conventions, the EU North Sea member states must establish a sustainable management regime for the marine environment.