Blar i Department of Geography på emneord "733199"
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Policy for weakening the bullwhip effect from mental perspectives -A system dynamics based study
(Master thesis, 2013-08-07)The bullwhip effect, which is a typical dynamic problem in the supply chain system, was identified over half a century ago. Numerous studies have been undertaken to investigate the cause and the corresponding solutions of ... -
The Polish Migration to Norway. The Dynamic and Regulation Policy
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This research aims to enhance the understanding of and gain insight into the process of migration growth that leads the Polish migrant group to become the largest immigrant community in Norway. Through this improved ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 development in the Lower Mekong Basin Cambodia
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)Dette er en model som simulerer sosiale, økologiske og økonomiske konsekvenser av vannkraft utbygging i Mekong regionen i Kambodsja. Modellen er basert på Systemdynamikk og er bygget i programvaren Vensim fra Ventana ... -
Swiss private banking, market forecasting and analysis: A systems dynamics approach
(Master thesis, 2013-06-27)The Swiss private banking industry has been always known as one of the leading off-shore private banking centers. During the last five years, however, the market entered a phase of fundamental change. Global economic ... -
Synthetic data analysis by way of system dynamics. A corporate case
(Master thesis, 2017-09-20)An organization can be seen as a system that is a collection of subsystems integrated to achieve set of desired goals. Policies within the business organization are decision rules proposed based on strategy developers´ and ... -
System Dynamic Study of Nepalese Labors Migration Trend to Malaysia
(Master thesis, 2017-12-19)This thesis deals about the dynamic of the migratory trend of Nepalese labors from Nepal to Malaysia. Though the remittances contribute significantly to Nepal’s national domestic product (GDP), the higher rate of labor ... -
A System Dynamics Approach for Streamlining the Report Request Process: a Case Study of a Local Healthcare Provider
(Master thesis, 2018-08-31)This project considers the case of a local healthcare provider. The company faces challenges posed by the considerable backlog of report requests. Due to the backlog of requests, the delivery time for reports has significantly ... -
A System dynamics approach to data center capacity planning - A case study
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)This thesis is an empirical study where the System Dynamics methodology is applied to help the Chief Technical Officer of a Norwegian IT company, operating in the cloud computing industry, in planning for future data center ...