Using the implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration as a case study, a Policy Technology Feedback loop is outlined.
During this period, the research methods shifted from conceptual and exploratory qualitative analysis to quantitative analysis, including mathematical models, and digital terrain models, etc.; the research content developed from a theoretical exploration to a case study approach.
In order to protect confidentiality, some practice and personal details have been changed where they are not crucial to the exploration of the case study.
Hence the many calls for practitioner research, which affords the opportunity for insider exploration of one case study in enough detail for others to draw lessons applicable to their own contexts [ 38], and may thus foster generalization and integration of theory and practice [ 62, 63].
Other forms of research such as non-randomized controlled trials, outcomes research, animal studies, mechanistic explorations, and case studies are excluded.
In this case study, exploration has been dissected into three interconnected relationships to provide a framework to guide research and analysis: (1) evidence to policy theories, (2) actors and policy networks, and (3) international to national policy transfer theories.
In the third case study, the exploration of the visual perception of ecosystem services through photographs (López-Santiago et al. [2014]) helped to reveal different stakeholder groups according to their values and types of knowledge.
Case study involves exploration, description and explanation of phenomenon within the real life context bounded by time and place [ 26].
O'Sullivan's compassionate study of psychosomatic illness through the exploration of seven case studies demonstrated how past traumas manifest themselves in very real symptoms.
The developed method is applied to a case study containing human exploration of a near-Earth object (NEO) and Mars, related to the concept of the Flexible Path.
