Affordable and reliable mini-grids in Sierra Leone: Analysing and designing rural electrification from a socio-technical perspective

Reframing deadlocked airport policy discourse: New perspectives on sustainable aviation in the Netherlands

Towards sustainable last mile deliveries and city logistics: A Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Approach with a modelling implementation, aimed at identifying the most sustainable alternatives for city logistics and model their effects for all stakeholders combined.

The GHG-emissions of the Dutch transport sector are ever increasing, mainly caused by the growth in the number of traffic movements. These movements are heavily influenced by the growth of the e-commerce sector and e-commerce related last mile deliveries. Hence, this study aims at providing more insight in sustainable alternatives for delivering...

Culture sensitive information systems: Introducing a culture sensitive design approach

Slavery is a worldwide reality. The current estimation is that around 40 million people live in slavery today (International Justice Mission, 2015, 2018b, 2018c). Slavery, together with other forms of endemic violence, are propagated by impunity. Justice systems exist to provide rule-of-law, but impunity thrives when these are non-existing,...

Towards the Adoption of EU General Data Protection Regulation: An Empirical Study of Businesses’ Perception on Privacy and Data Protection

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) is about to come in force in May 2018. It poses new queries for both policymakers and businesses. Policymakers want o know how effective the new EU GDPR will be while the businesses would like to know how the EU GDPR should be implemented. To answer that question, empirical studies on how...

Policy recommendations to improve data quality in the electricity chain

Data quality is essential in the modern world. The higher the quality of the data, the more information, knowledge and thereby wisdom can be retrieved. Besides better wisdom high quality data has another advantage: it can save costs since errors can be avoided. Low quality data is costing a lot of money to companies and will lead to information...

An institutional analysis framework to close the regional water cycle

Climate change and urbanization put increasing stress on urban water management (UWM). Prolonged periods of drought in densely populated areas threaten the quantity and quality of freshwater sources. Closing the water cycle by wastewater reuse can alleviate pressure on these freshwater sources. However, a closed water system requires a different...

A sustainable procurement policy proposal for distribution system operators

The environmental and social impact of the energy generation and distribution industry on the biosphere is negative or unknown due to a lack of supply chain transparency. For electricity and gas distribution system operators (DSOs), the opportunity to contribute significantly to more environmental and social sustainable development in the energy...

Enhancing the cargo value chain for KLM Cargo with regard to the acceptance process, trucking schedule and data communication: An in-depth case study for Denmark - Amsterdam

In recent years, the playing field of KLM Cargo has become increasingly dynamic and competitive. To remain competitive, KLM Cargo has to improve the delivery performance of the cargo in terms of timeliness and overall quality of the cargo (such as quality of the documentation, packaging, labeling and checks performed), which will reduce re-work ...

Risk based decision making approach: Developed for international shipping domain by adapting from asset management in energy infrastructures

Today, shipping industry is a complex system involving multiple actors, multiple interests and intricate interactions occurring at different levels.With any disruption to interaction occurring there would be multiple impacts and accumulation of costs on individual actors operating in the system.Unless these risks are well understood and...

The effects of the introduction of the European Digital Single Market of mobile roaming in the Netherlands: the impact over the social values

The European Union (EU) has been regulating roaming since 1997, and has developed different policies aiming to promote transparency in prices and improve competitiveness across the members. With both positive and negative outcomes, the European Commission (EC) had a long learning process where different regulatory measures were introduced and...

Analysis of the challenges and solutions in the water and sanitation sector in Greater Maputo, Mozambique: Applying the Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways approach

Similarly to other rapidly growing cities in developing countries, Greater Maputo faces multiple challenges related to water and sanitation. Additionally, new trends are visible with the potential to increase the severity of these challenges in future decades; these are for example, climate change, which is causing longer droughts and more...