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Gülck, Kim (author)
This research delves into the challenging task of exploring secondary materials supply from existing building stocks, crucial for sustainable resource management in the face of climate change. Focused on Hamburg, Germany, the study employs a unique combination of GIS-based bottom-up building stock analysis and dynamic Material Flow Analysis ...
master thesis 2023
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Delval, Mona (author)
Food loss and waste (FLW) generation is a global issue that has recently gained an increasing attention. It has previously been estimated that approximately one third of all food globally produced is wasted. Recently, other accounts have been made, for various food products and focusing on various geographical scopes, sometimes disaggregating...
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Termote, Daniëlle (author)
Sustainability has gained significant importance in the building industry due to its impact on energy consumption, resource utilization, waste generation, and CO2 emissions. The responsibility for ensuring sustainable building construction often falls on project managers, tasked to lead teams and successfully deliver building projects. Project...
master thesis 2023
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Grimbergen, Katja (author)
The Dutch construction sector has the task in the coming years, to build around 1 million new houses in the Netherlands, most of which will have to be built in urban areas. Together with existing (inter)national crises such as the climate change crisis and biodiversity loss crisis, this means the sector will have to think differently to not...
master thesis 2023
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Badaltjawdharie, Prashant (author)
master thesis 2022
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Knorringa, Jair (author)
Carbon accounting in the financial sector has experienced a rapid growth over the last years. Both private and public institutions have focused their attention on the role the financial sector can play in accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy. More than 80% of the financial institutions worldwide acknowledge the importance of GHG...
master thesis 2021
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Tegtmeier, Kaja (author)
Most nations have agreed to limit the emission of greenhouse gases within the Paris Agreement. The agreement relies on the assumption that all participating nations have accurate means of estimating carbon emissions and offsets accurately. However, global carbon emission accounting methodologies lack accuracy in approach and required carbon...
master thesis 2021
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Dixit, Kratagya (author)
This thesis is for Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Customers who are interested in paying Just Prices, and who would like to understand what the origin of the concept is, how it differs from the 'fair price', and how a Just Price could be reached in practice. This thesis is forward-looking rather than backward-looking. It will lead to...
master thesis 2021
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Bichler, Tobias (author)
Global plastic production increased from 200 million metric tons in 2002, to 359 million metric tons in 2019. It is estimated that plastics in the marine environment weigh more than 150 million metric tons and by 2050 could even outweigh the mass of fish in the ocean. Over half of the world population (55%) nowadays lives in urban areas and...
master thesis 2020
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Hoogerbrugge, Coen (author)
One of the tools that is being equipped in the fight against global warming is greenhouse gas accounting. This thesis studies what factors standard setters can use to influence the probability of widespread adoption for a newly proposed standardized measurement and calculation methodology for corporate greenhouse gas inventories. A theoretical...
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Stannat, Alexander (author)
Online P2P file sharing networks rely on the cooperation of participants to function effectively. Agents upand download files to one another without the need for any central authority. If agents all contribute to the network and share roughly the same amounts of data as they contribute the network will operate, however if some agents decide to...
master thesis 2020
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Offerman, Rochus (author)
In the last decade, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity steadily enlarged, where global deal making continues to rise. While the M&A activity is increasing, it is the technology sector with the fastest growing number of transitions. Even though M&A are widely used for financial research purposes, there is plenty yet to be...
master thesis 2019
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Gonçalo Melo, Leonardo (author)
In this thesis two different approaches for the construction of environmental extensions compatible with the MRIO database EUREGIO are compared alongside with the latest liter- ature on consumption-based accounts. To date, few studies have focused on the provision of sub-national accounts at the NUTS2 level of detail and never production-based...
master thesis 2019
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Plomp, Angela (author)
After several incident in which the privacy of patients was violated, the need for<br/>logging of access to medical data is evident. In this master thesis, the first prototype is presented for a blockchain-based access log for medical data. This prototype<br/>uses a novel blockchain to create a tamper-proof log. Patients each have their own...
master thesis 2019
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Krishnakumar, Akhil (author)
Businesses have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) into many of their operational activities such as marketing, sales, and finance for its speed and cost-effectiveness. Lately, AI has also found applications in organizational recruitment processes. Unlike the conventional rule-based systems, present-day AI systems learn from data patterns...
master thesis 2019
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Stevens, Hadassa (author)
There is no globally harmonised calculation methodology for GHG emissions in place, which hampers the ability to measure and report the environmental impact of logistics operations. This paper is aimed at developing an adequate GHG emissions accounting methodology for cross-border multi-modal logistics at Heineken and at generalising the...
master thesis 2018
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Juan Maso, Albert (author)
Artificial intelligence is getting more and more advanced. In the future, robots equipped with AI will behave an act similarly as humans do, and this raises concerns about how they are going to be governed. However, scientists are alerting that not enough attention is paid to AI from a sociotechnical point of view. Intelligent systems can...
master thesis 2018
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Albeda, Laurien (author)
Algorithms are all around us. Based on large amounts of data and through automated decision-making processes, they increasingly exercise power over us. As a way of governing this power, we should be able to hold these algorithms and those responsible for implementing them accountable. This research posed the following research question: How can...
master thesis 2018
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Turcios Rodriguez, Elsa (author)
Tracking is a pervasive mechanism across the web which is capable to trace and collect users’ online data. One of the most widely used mechanisms for tracking are cookies, and they are used to deliver online behavioral advertisement. Since these mechanisms pose a threat to privacy, the E-Privacy Directive was created as the regional legal...
master thesis 2018
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Ferrigno, Luca (author)
Today’s market environment is characterized by increasing competition. This competition forces incumbents to innovate if they want to sustain their competitive advantage. Large enterprises start to adopt methodologies pioneered within the startup world, like the lean startup methodology, the innovate. The adoption of this methodology has proven...
master thesis 2018
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