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Schwarz, P. (author)
master thesis 2016
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Keijser, B.M.J. (author)
Phosphorus is essential for all life on this planet. It is needed to provide for high productivity yields in modern agriculture: a key part of the Green Revolution that took place in the twentieth century. There is no substitute for phosphate rock and phosphate fertilizer in their agricultural role. Both the markets for phosphate rock and...
master thesis 2016
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Venema, C.T. (author)
Both the public and the European Commission have criticized the past actions of Dutch housing associations. A new housing act has become applicable, which would force housing associations to change their conduct on the rental housing market. Important developments include the allocation of households with a low income to social dwellings, a...
master thesis 2016
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Benaich, H.A.G. (author)
master thesis 2015
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Diran, D.D. (author)
In this study an economic, environmental and sustainability assessment is conducted on a potential large scale biofuel industry in Suriname, South America, by applying System Dynamics. Suriname faces important energy related questions for the future, this with the eye on the growing economy and energy demand and the responsibility in terms of...
bachelor thesis 2015
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Kuipers, J. (author)
In this Master of Science thesis, the author introduces a new method to explore the consequences of uncertainty in System Dynamics (SD) models. This is important, as it allows the SD field to provide more robust decision support. The current methods search for relations between uncertainties and model outputs, without using the model equations....
master thesis 2014
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Tsaples, G. (author)
System Dynamics and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis are two decision aid methods that aim at helping decision makers to better understand the world through formal models and computations. System Dynamics with the use of feedback loops and time delays helps to understand the behavior of a system and how the various elements affect this behavior....
master thesis 2014
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Jaxa-Rozen, M. (author)
Access to safe, reliable lighting is a critical need for poor rural households in developing countries. Un-electrified households often rely on kerosene lamps, which cause major impacts on health and the environment. However, advances in LED lighting and photovoltaic (PV) technology have enabled the rapid development of a market for solar...
master thesis 2014
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Rose, A.C. (author)
This report presents a first look study at the field of System Dynamics. The objective of the study is to perform a model-based policy analysis in order to investigate the future advancement of the System Dynamics field. The aim of this investigation is to determine what this advancement should look like and how that can be accomplished. Several...
master thesis 2014
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Moorlag, R.A.C.W.M. (author)
With the decline of conventional gas resources in many industrialised regions, energy security has increasingly become a topic of interest. Fuelled by disturbed diplomatic relations, both national and regional governments have the desire to decrease their dependency on foreign nations for their gas supply. However, the energy future of these...
master thesis 2014
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Markensteijn, T.L. (author)
Organizations are in ever changing environments which results in the need for constant adaptation of business processes and structures. Continuous business process improvements can result in cost savings as well as higher efficiency and effectiveness. In some cases business process improvements can be realized through experience and competent...
master thesis 2013
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Vasilopoulos, C. (author)
Years of turmoil in the banking sector have revealed the need to assess the performance of banks and explore the resilience of the banking system under adverse futures. Banks are not the safe houses everyone believed them to be, as the recent crisis of 2007 showed. Today, banks are highly uncertain dynamically complex systems that are...
master thesis 2013
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K?vári, A. (author)
This project’s commissioner, the head of ING’s emerging markets credit trading desk developed a loan structure called Revenue Participation Loan to fit the needs of SMEs in emerging markets. He now wants to combine this new product with innovation in his approach to uncertainty. With these types of loans SMEs agree to pay a fixed percentage of...
master thesis 2013
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Bellinga, P.B. (author)
This thesis presents an assessment of the economic and environmental effects of Extended Producer Responsibility and No Reuse Policies, by using an agent-based model of Mobile Phone End of Life Networks. Electronic waste of mobile phones is an increasing problem. Governments have reacted by adopting various types of legislation, the most common...
master thesis 2013
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Loonen, E. (author)
The current European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in combination with other renewable electricity (RES-E) support schemes such as a premium feed-in tariff (FIT) or tradable green certificates system (TGC) do not guarantee a carbon neutral power sector in 2050. This study shows that many plausible high carbon emissions futures exist when no...
master thesis 2012
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Sigurdsson-Norddahl, S. (author)
Economic importance for the indium mineral has been growing in recent years and indium is usually referred to as one of the technology minerals. High tech industries use indium in their application because of the special properties: transparency and electrical conductivity. Indium demand has more than doubled in the last decade and is expected...
master thesis 2011
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Auping, W.L. (author)
High copper prices have not led to a place for this metal in the debate about mineral scarcity, while copper is a base metal which has many uses and is vital for developments in the energy transition. In this research the global copper system is examined from the perspective of the development of supply and demand and the effects structural and...
master thesis 2011
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Logtens, T.W.A. (author)
This research focuses on the effects demographic aging has on the welfare state in The Netherlands. It aims on providing an overview of the welfare state system and analyzing this system taking into account deep uncertainty that exists within the system. This is done by using a combination of Exploratory System Dynamics and Exploratory Modeling...
master thesis 2011
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De Groen, A.W. (author)
The coalition agreement of the current Dutch government describes four policy changes which should improve the accessibility of the social housing market for low incomes. The effects of these policy changes are unknown due to unpredictable housing move behaviour of households. A system dynamics model, taking this unpredictability into account,...
master thesis 2011
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Morales-España, G.A. (author)
Sustainable energy development is an important topic nowadays, where new ways to obtain and use the energy are worldwide researched with a common objective, to mitigate the global warming. Two of the main CO2 polluters are the electricity and the transportation sectors. While some renewable energy technologies are taking place in the electricity...
master thesis 2010
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