Report on an Expert Meeting. The Socio-Cognitive Map of Dutch Coastal Defense Research: Report 5. This report presents the results of a expert meeting with practitioners, researchers and intermediary actors working in the field of coastal management, coastal engineering and coastal research.
The expert meeting was used as a method for mapping drivers and barriers for transdisciplinary research. It is important to gain insight in barriers and drivers for transdisciplinarity, because these form points for policy intervention.
In report 2 it is concluded that at present integrated coastal zone management is high on both societal and policy agendas and will probably continue to be in the future. The report furthermore concludes that integrated coastal zone management requires transdisciplinary research. The bird’s eye view of coastal defence research that was presented in report 3 gives some, though not a conclusive indication whether transdisciplinary research is taken up sufficiently. That also holds for the bibliometric analysis presented in report 4. In particular, the integration between scientific and non-scientific knowledge sources and the orientation towards concrete societal problems is difficult to trace with the institutional mapping and bibliometric approach.
