Blar i Department of Geography på emneord "733199"
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Public Policy Improvements to Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture Operations – A Case Study
(Master thesis, 2018-06-29)The aquaculture industry is an important food production industry both in Norway and around the world. As a young industry, it is still developing and growing. Industry-wide challenges exist, including but not limited to ... -
Raw Material Inventory Control Analysis: A Case Study for a Manufacturing Firm in Norway
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Refugee Integration in Norway: A System Dynamics Modeling Approach
(Master thesis, 2022-11-28)In the past decade, there has been a continuous rise of a number of refugees globally. Many countries are therefore expected to help and welcome more refugees. However, many studies have shown that among the immigrants, ... -
Residential Rooftop Solar and the Utilities Death Spiral. A system dynamics analysis of the effects of rooftop solar diffusion on the electricity rates and CO2 emissions of the U.S. electricity supply sector
(Master thesis, 2015-08-12)U.S. electric utilities are concerned by the recent exponential growth in rooftop solar installations among their customers. They fear that if their customers continue to adopt such self generation technologies and buy ... -
Resilience of small-scale farming to the emergence of bioenergy as a climate policy: lessons from Brazil’s social biodiesel programme
(Master thesis, 2019-08-06)This master thesis describes effects of the Brazilian social biodiesel policies on smallholder farmers. Through interviews, documental analysis and a simulation model, it rejects a dynamic hypothesis about market manipulation ... -
The Role of System Dynamics Approaches in Aquatic Disease Management: An Application to Sea Lice Control in Norway
(Master thesis, 2012-09-21)Different methodologies have been used to model the epidemiology and economics of aquaculture diseases, including input-output models, benefit- cost analysis, linear programming, simple spreadsheet-based models, compartment ... -
Rule compliance in public forests: A pilot experiment
(Master thesis, 2020-07-14)Illegal logging is a serious issue that not only has dire environmental and social consequences, but also bring forwards the issue of poor governance of common pool resources. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute ... -
Salmon economic analysis: an operational cost study, finding better ways to ensure efficient resource utilization, improves profitability and environmental sustainability for the salmon aquaculture in Norway.
(Master thesis, 2018-12-20)Salmon aquaculture is the fastest growing industry in Norway, contributing to food security and nutrition. The industry ensures social, economic and environmentally sustainable development by utilizing natural resources ... -
Shortage of General Physicians' Impact on Medical Malpractice Deaths, The Case of Quebec
(Master thesis, 2022-11-28)In 2012, A study was released showing that more than 40,000 lives were claimed because of medical malpractice in Canada; it is estimated that more than 9,000 of these deaths happened in Quebec in the same year (Charney, ... -
Simulation-based Assessment of Cholera Epidemic Response: Al-Hudaydah, Yemen
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Small hydro power stations, a way to secure electricity supply in Colombia. A policy evaluation using a system dynamics model
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)After its deregulation in 1994, the Colombian Electricity Market (CEM) has developed satisfactorily in some sectors, especially in terms of generation and sales to large costumers and to household sector. However, around ... -
Smart Electricity Grid with Real Time Pricing (RTP): An Alternative to Fixed Electricity Pricing In the Ghana Electricity Market
(Master thesis, 2017-06-28)Electricity pricing has been identified as a major cause of the shortfall in power supply in Ghana. End user electricity prices are fixed for long period and do not reflect the marginal cost of generating electricity with ... -
Smart Price. A Dynamic Way to Reduce Load Shedding in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2018-06-19)This thesis is a study of how the fixed price in Bangladesh electricity systems causing load shedding. the unstable supply of electricity is hindering the normal progressions of socio economic developments of Bangladesh. ... -
Space Debris as a Super-Wicked Problem: A System Dynamics Approach to Achieving Long-Term Sustainability in Low Earth Orbit
(Master thesis, 2021-06-04)The following study shows that a simplified orbital simulation model can generate prominent results from different scenarios in exploring the dynamics of the environment in low earth orbit and its ramifications. Concentrating ... -
Sprawl dynamics: its drivers and where to intervene
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Strategic pathways to eradicate two infectious diseases: An experimental study on dynamic decision making in resource allocation task
(Master thesis, 2018-08-21)In such areas like infectious diseases management, resource allocation strategies are crucial, as they determine the livelihoods of people both in the short-term and in the long-term. Often, a specific geographic area is ... -
A Study of Labor Migration and Remittance Economy of Nepal; a System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2018-02-03)There is an increasing trend in emigration from Nepal to developed countries as a migrant worker since last two decades. With an increase in labor emigration there is increasing share of international migrant workers ... -
Supervised injectable heroin treatment and fatal overdose: a system dynamics model to assess the impact of supervised injectable heroin treatment on fatal overdoses in Bergen, Norway
(Master thesis, 2014-06-10)The city of Bergen, Norway, is troubled by a large number of deaths caused by opioid related overdoses. The number of deaths is also an indication of drug addict suffering, close family worries, drug trade and other criminal ... -
Sustainability of forestry in Romania: Analysis using a dynamic simulation model; a case for public access to information on natural resources
(Master thesis, 2019-08-30)There have been ample studies on the sustainability of Romanian forestry from a qualitative perspective. Quantitative studies on Romania’s forests, however, have focused on either static analysis, or historical analysis. ... -
Sustainable Aviation Fuel in a Scandinavian Context - A Systems Perspective on Sustainable Transitions within the Aviation Industry
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The aviation sector is a major contributor to global carbon emissions, accounting for approximately 2.5% of total global emissions. The main contributor to these emissions is the production and consumption of aviation fuel, ...