By Andre van der Beken;Michiel Blind;Ilke Borowski;Jos Brils;Anthony Chapman; et al;All authors
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Reflections on Fundamental and Policy-oriented Research 11 also the dynamics of the researcher, his/her relation with both the research team and community and with the end-user of the research results. Ten years later an even bigger change took place with the increasing use of the Internet and the availability of user-friendly software programs for both scientific analysis and reporting of results. Geographical Information Systems (now called Geospatial Information Systems-GIS) were introduced under this name as early as 1962 in Canada, but the first GIS-software in the public domain was released 20 years later, and it was the PC that made GIS widely accessible in the 1990s.
2. R. P. Feynman, Six Easy Pieces – Essentials of Physics, Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA, 1963. 3. J. , Networking in the Water Sector: Suggestions and Examples for Good Practice, UNESCO, International Hydrological Programme IHP-VI, Technical Documents N163. Paris, 2004. 4. A. Van der Beken, Water-related education, training and technology transfer, in Knowledge for Sustainable Development, Vol. net (2002). 5. -Cl. Roland, Communication practice and responsible behaviour in scientific research, Research’EU, N153, 2007.
These issues and problems can be alleviated by effective communication between science, policy and management, or an interface: the subject of the present book. Therefore, fundamental and policy-oriented research of the water system should be understood as the action to extend our knowledge and/or to apply existing knowledge to new or emerging problems that have not yet got a full scientific understanding or a solution for better policy and management. 1 Objectives The general aim of scientific research is moving the borders of our knowledge and thus contributing to the understanding of phenomena of all kind.