Managing Water and Energy on Small Touristic Islands: study case Caye Chapel

Small islands that support urban communities provide a unique opportunity to study the urban water cycle, its energy needs, and possible links to renewable energy. The aim of this paper is to explore to what extent an island’s urban water cycle and the renewable electricity production system required to satisfy the urban water cycle’s demand can...

Multi-Actor Portfolio Analysis Methodology: A Stochastic and Heuristic based approach to deal with information scarce environments

Previous academic work on Portfolio Decision Analysis (PDA) have pointed at the advantage of using PDA in multi-actor situations and environmental sectors, but have also pointed at the lack of research done in such case studies. Currently there exist situations where PDA would be beneficial but current methods are not able to analyse the systems...

Local Community Involvement for Indonesian National Bridge Management Systems

Within the Indonesian national road network, Bina Marga, assisted by regional offices (Balai), manage nearly 18,000 bridges scattered across 34 provinces. Maintaining its reliability is vital as inland transportation remains the most effective mobility means for ± 270 million inhabitants. Therefore, as a road service provider under the Ministry...

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....

Knowledge management improvements at KPMG: An assessment of the knowledge channels at a large knowledge intensive organization

An assessment at a large knowledge intensive organization to improve their knowledge management system to be faster and more accurate. This thesis shows the analysis to come to recommendations for KPMG on how to improve their KMS. The result is an overview of knowledge channels KPMG can use to increase speed and accuracy. The analyses are done...