Water Management as a Peace Mechanism: An integrated and comprehensive new policy framework for the application of water management in stabilisation operations.

Water will be a root-cause or catalyst of conflicts. As a result, the Netherlands Armed Forces and its partners will be confronted with water issues in stabilisation operations. Consequently, a policy framework how to apply water management as a de-escalating, conflict prevention and resolution instrument in stabilisation operations is regarded...

Designing an integrative approach to regional water schemes in South Africa

South Africa has to cope with a varying freshwater supply. In doing so it has constructed over 500 dams that capture half of the countries annual rainfall. Despite this shortages do occur and are expected to become more prevalent due to a combination of population and economic growth and an increase in the variability in the freshwater supply....

In search for robustness: Combining System Dynamics and exploratory Multi- Criteria Decision Analysis

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....

An Exploration of the System Dynamics Field: A Model-Based Policy Analysis

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...

Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Systems: Exploring the effects of human subjectivity on social acceptance and enhancing cognitive learning using Q methodology

According to the European Commission (2012), RPAS constitute a very promising new sector in the aerospace field in Europe. The emerging technology of RPAS and the variety of their civil applications (corporate, governmental, commercial, non-military) that make them useful for the military as well as the civil sector are related to monitoring...

The exploration of the reverse salient of electric vehicle systems for urban mobility

Electrification transportation for urban mobility is a hot topic around the world. Many types of electric vehicles could be employed for urban mobility, but both the EVs’ adoption rate and the deployment of their dependent infrastructures are either in the nascent stage or have not been commercialized. No study has studied the drawbacks of EV...

Aquaculture in Brazil: New institutional framework new possibilities

Brazil has an emergent economy, large fresh water resources and is a leading country in food export in several products. While the aquaculture industry has an enormous potential, its production figures are still low when compared to industries such as the meat one. The structural challenges for the sector development can be seen as three types,...

Long term planning for the water supply system of the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam under new water saving regimes of the retail customers: Understanding the system and addressing uncertainties

The centralized drinking water supply system of the Metropolitan Area of Amsterdam, operated and owned mainly by Waternet, has high performance indicators and satisfies the full demand for water in the urban grid and surrounding areas on a full cost recovery basis. Social and technological developments, stemming mainly from (i) the increasing...

A Vehicle Transition Model: Electric vehicles in Amsterdam

This research deals with identifying policies that can stimulate the transition of private combustion vehicles to electric vehicles in Amsterdam, the Netherlands by 2040. As the problem owner, the Municipality of Amsterdam is responsible for improving the air quality of the city. Since road traffic has the largest share in pollution (i.e. 68%),...

Demographic aging and its implications for the Dutch welfare state: An Exploratory System Dynamics approach

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...

Co-creatie van beleid: Utopie of een kwestie van organiseren? Participatieve beleidsontwikkeling voor de verkenningsfase van nieuw beleid

Het doel van het onderzoek is om een participatief beleidsontwikkelingsproces te ontwikkelen dat invulling biedt aan de verkenningsfase voor nieuw (vervolg)beleid bij strategisch multi-level / multi-actoren vraagstukken. Dit proces is bruikbaar voor (netwerk)organisaties die een doorstart van beleid willen onderzoeken. Het...

Electric Vehicle Diffusion: Exploring Uncertainties using System Dynamics

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...

Scaling Up Uganda's Electricity Access

Access to power is tied to any country’s development. It provides opportunities for increased social welfare, education, health and income generating opportunities all of which Uganda needs. Uganda’s economic development is being stifled by power inaccessibility. Electricity access levels are as low as 9% nationally. The study was aimed at...

Barriers for Water

Deciding how to decide: The added value of using rational decision making methods within TomTom Mobility Solutions

Acceptable Risk Levels for Use in Hydraulic Design

This thesis contains a description of the government policies of the Netherlands and the UK with regard to flood and coastal protection and of three detailed case study analyses used in for research project 'Acceptable Risk Levels for Use in Hydraulic Design', which was carried out by HR Wallingford and was funded by the British Government. The...

Dynamics of Sustainable Development in the Gaza Strip

Development and application of a simulation model for the purpose of policy analysis in the Gaza Strip.