Kwalitatief beschrijvend onderzoek naar de rol van verpleegkundigen in het verlenen van spirituele zorg aan patiënten die curatief behandeld worden voor kanker. Uit de resultaten van dit onderzoek is gebleken dat patiënten, die curatief behandeld worden voor kanker, het belangrijk vinden dat verpleegkundigen …

Een analyse van de factoren die de slagingskansen van community arts en kwartiermakersprojecten in sociaal zwakkere milieus vergroten.

Human and plant relationships are described within the rich tradition of multispecies ethnography, ethnobotany, and political ecology. In theorizing this relationship, the issues of functionalism, and interconnectivity are raised. This article aims to re-examine the position of plants in the context …

This article reflects on formal education for sustainable development (ESD), demonstrating how critical course on culturally diverse ways of relating to nature can contribute both to an appreciation of alternative ways of relating to nature and to a more nuanced understanding of one's own cultural and …

A reflective practitioners'anlaysis of student responses to ethical issues encountered during a workshop on International Business. The research was conducted with 1st year students of Bedrijfsmanagement MKB. The papaer reviews the literature and makes recoomendations for the business studies curriculum …

The Convention on Biodiversity has developed the concept of ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘natural resources’ in order to describe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems. Biodiversity, conceived through the economic approach, was recognized to be of great social and economic value to both present …

Although many publications have documented the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in children and adolescents, the recent review showed that there are only few well-controlled studies that support the efficacy of CAM in the treatment and clinical improvement of children with asthma. …

While the notion of ‘human nature’ has been devaluated from the status of ‘grand theory’ to a marginal anthropological debate, I argue that it deserves to be resurrected in order to comprehend some of the explanatory gaps inherent in other theories. Industrialization signifies a turning point in human …

The present study examined efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment in Dutch children with asthma in areas with differing air pollution. The study results indicate that TCM treatment of children living in more polluted urban area is less successful then that of children living in cleaner …

In deze bundel doen we verslag van de onderzoeksprojecten die de leden van de kenniskring in de periode 2010-2012 hebben uitgevoerd in het kader van het hiervoor beschreven programma. Het startpunt van de meeste van deze onderzoeksprojecten werd gevormd door de onderzoeksresultaten van twee grote kwantitatieve …