Sustainable Solid Waste Management for Ahmedabad, India

Solid waste Management has become severe issue in India. With burgeoning population, the urban utilities are crumbling under pressure of population explosion, lack of funding and political pressure. The focus of this thesis is on Solid Waste Management in city of Ahmedabad. The research investigates the potential solutions and policy packages...

Barriers and opportunities for the transfer of second-hand computers in Uganda

The main purpose of this work was to explore the barriers and opportunities that the transfer of second-hand computers, more precisely refurbished computes, could have if they were send to Uganda from Europe. In order to deal with this, we employed some frameworks previously developed to assess whether this transfer could be appropriated,...

Working Conditions in the Bangladeshi garment sector: Social dialogue and compliance

The Bangladeshi garment sector is a leading garment manufacturing industry in the world that has been growing constantly during the last decades. Today the garment sector represent the 80% of the national export and counts USD 19 billions revenues; these numbers describe the sector as the most important manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. The...

Evaluation of the potential of renewable driven desalination systems in Greece: A functional analysis and a financial feasibility study in the case of Sifnos Island

Water shortage is a major problem affecting certain areas of the planet. Almost 15% of the world’s population has not access to clean water and water demand is expected to double in the next twenty years. Over the past few years, a shift towards renewable energy technologies is observed. Rising energy prices, fossil fuel scarcity and increasing...

A system dynamics model for knowledge and technology of enterprises in the open innovative environment

In the fast developing knowledge economy age, the internal resources of an enterprise are usually not enough for proper development, and cooperation with external organizations becomes a popular approach for many enterprises to improve their knowledge storage and technology level, the background of which is called open innovative environment....

Functions of Innovation Systems Analysis over time of PV technologies in Germany

The development and diffusion of different PV (Photovoltaic) technologies has been studied in Germany from the perspective of Functions of innovation systems, as well as the competition between these technologies. In this way important insights have been gained into the dynamics of development and diffusion of different PV technologies, which is...

Compost, biogas and biochar in Northern Ghana: Climate impact and economic feasibility in the context of voluntary carbon markets

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. In some areas of Sub-Saharan Africa appropriate organic waste management technology could address development issues such as soil degradation, unemployment and energy scarcity, while at the same time providing climate benefits....

Consumers Preferences on Airline Environmental Policies

The airline industry is facing a dilemma. On one hand due to a higher demand from the market, the industry wants to grow; on the other hand the industry is dependent on fossil fuel which is polluting the environment. In this research I have studied the effects of consumer preferences on airline environmental policies concerning the adverse...

Technical and economic analysis of mobile services in emerging countries

This study is intended to propose an innovative mobile service for the African and Middle East countries where the operator Orange-France Telecom is present. The countries under study include seventeen countries located in North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East. The African context is particular on several fronts: on average 60% of the...