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Planning for an elderly boom; A System Dynamics Approach to strategic healthcare planning in Bergen, Norway
(Master thesis, 2008-06-09)The thesis addresses the future development and potential future scenarios of the geriatric health care situation in the city of Bergen. Due to population dynamics and demographic processes the city of Bergen may expect ... -
Impact of peak oil and food based biofuel production on long-term food security. A dynamic policy model
(Master thesis, 2008-06-10)It would, for the sake of food security, be rational to start an agricultural transition to a system less dependant on fossil fuels in good time before a possible energy crisis. It therefore seems a paradox that policy ... -
Can System Dynamics Improve Project Management Teaching? An Experimental Study
(Master thesis, 2008-08-18)With the great economic development, more and more well trained projectmangers are demanded. Unfortunately, evidence show traditional project managementtraining fails to provide prospective project managers with the ... -
Non-Revenue Water Reduction Programs in Colombia: Methodology Analysis using a System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2008-08-19)All across the world there are concerns about water availability that inviteutilities to perform better as water stewards. One of the ways to get a betterperformance, both operational and financial, is to reduce water ... -
The AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania: A System Dynamics Approach for Policy Development
(Master thesis, 2008-08-28)Despite all the efforts made by the government and other agencies, the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania still remains a major challenge. Over the last two decades the numbers of people living with HIV/AIDS and the deaths caused ... -
Intermodal Logistics System Simulation Model and the Empty Container Flows
(Master thesis, 2008-09-04)"The average container is idle or undergoing empty repositioning for over 50 % of its life span..." (CRINKS Paul, 2000) High volume of empty container movements and low container productivity are the main problems of the ... -
Capturing the Dynamics of Panic Disorder. A System Dynamics Translation of the Contemporary Biological and Psychological Conceptualization of Panic Disorder
(Master thesis, 2008-11-23)The present study undertakes a full system dynamics (SD) translation of the contemporary biological and psychological conceptualizations of panic disorder (PD). It makes explicit the dynamic processes implicit in the ... -
Synthesizing System Dynamics and Geographic Information Systems in a new method to Model and Simulate Environmental Systems
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-12-12)A new method to synthesize system dynamics (SD) with geographicinformation systems (GIS) is presented in this research. This new method employsthe Object Oriented Paradigm (OOP) as a common platform for the integrationprocess. ... -
"How Gender Affects Decision Making - A Case Study of Tibeto- Burmese Women in Kobang VDC, Mustang, Nepal"
(Master thesis, 2009)It is commonly presented in scientific literature that Tibeto-BurmeseMountain women’sstatus is higher than Indo-AryanTerai women. Findings of many studies indicates thatTibeto-Burmese women are traditionally afforded more ... -
Ricebean food preparation and diets
(Food Security through Ricebean Research in India and Nepal, Research report, 2009)The existing scientific literature has established that the nutritional value of ricebean (Vigna umbellata) in many respects is impacted by different methods of food preparation. In particular, antinutritional factors such ... -
Resource management in the Anlo-Ewe migrant fishing community Abakam in the central region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)The study is focusing on resource management of the Anlo-Ewe migrant fishing community Abakam in the Central Region, Ghana. The study identifies that access to fishing rights among the migrants depends on the chieftaincy ... -
The Impact of tourism on socio-economic development in Busua in the Western region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)This thesis investigates the socio-economic impacts that tourism industry has on the rural communities in Ghana in general and specifically in Busua in the Western Region of Ghana. -
Development for whom? Narratives on the impact of Chinese involvement in Angola
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)The rise of China challenges the unipolar world dominated by the West and the capitalism seen after the end of the cold war. Africa, in particular, has been dominated by the West during the last decades. The economic ... -
A Dynamic Analysis of Tourism Determinants in Sicily
(Master thesis, 2009-08-19)Master Programme in System Dynamics -
Ekstremflommer i Grimsa, øvre Glommavassdraget. Rekonstruksjon av flomfrekvens gjennom holosen og sårbarhetsanalyse av dagens elv
(Master thesis, 2009-09-02)Reconstruction of magnitude and frequency of former extreme floods can improve modelling and forecasting of future flood events. In order to expand the time series of large-scale floods in Eastern Norway, a paleoflood study ... -
En kvalitativ studie av klima basert på feltarbeid knyttet til Nigardsbreen
(Master thesis, 2009-09-02)Klima er et av de mest, om ikke det mest attraktive området innen forskning i dag. Klimaforskning er noe en vanligvis forbinder med naturvitenskap. Det signaliseres om at det er et behov for at samfunnsvitenskapene skal ... -
Subsidy Policy Design for Increasing Solar Photovoltaic Installed Capacity in China -A System Dynamics Based Study
(Master thesis, 2009-09-08)China's photovoltaic (PV) based electricity generating capacity is obviously lagging behind the world level, although its manufacturing capacity of PV cells and modules has remained ahead worldwide since 2006. The Chinese ... -
Modeling Resource-Based Growth for Development Policy Analysis
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-11)This dissertation focuses on the design and implementation of simulation models fordevelopment policy analysis, to support a broader understanding of the development processand the identification of effective development ... -
Changing conditions for political practice: FDI discourse and political spaces for labor in Bolivia
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-18)Various authors have pointed out that the complex processes of globalization arebringing about general shifts in political practices. In particular, these processes areseen to have weakened traditional practices relating ... -
An Integrated Approach to Support Energy Policy Formulation and Evaluation
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-11-27)With the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol (UN, 1997) in 1997 and the recentincrease in energy prices, national leaders of industrialized countries have startedinvestigating options for reducing energy consumption and carbon ...