Thesis in Technology, Development and Globalisation

 

In this section you can find a list of all the Master theses that have been written in the field of Technology, Development and Globalisation.

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 2022

  • 22.01 - Martijn Buijvoets: Yes We Care! How health workers in low-resource settings get stuck and can escape capability traps.

 2021

  • 21.04 - Jelle Schuitemaker: Learnings from frugal innovators in LMIC healthcare markets: Business model experimentation to overcome the challenge of accessibility, scalability, and viability.

  • 21.03 - Edwin van Leth: Local Content Requirements as a policy instrument to foster green industrialization in developing countries: The case of the Turkish wind turbine manufacturing sector

  • 21.02 - Julie Marchand: The introduction of electric cooking in Nepal: A gender and socio-technical transition perspective

  • 21.01 - Wout van Hemmen: Change agency by grassroots entrepreneurs: an exploration of the transformative impact on sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa

 2020

  • 20.05 - Attabik Awan: Darts for the renewables’ bullseye? Sustainable business models in the electricity sector of Indonesia.

  • 20.04 - Henjo Jagtenberg: The local production of cleaner cookstoves: supporting the growth of stove producers in a local market context.

  • 20.03 - Sukrit Aravind Patil: Socio-technical feasibility analysis and assessment of resource recovery through anaerobic digestion from sludge at municipal scale wastewater treatments plants in Bangalore, India.

  • 20.02 - Wahyu Ardie Nugroho: Feasibility Study of Integrated Green Refinery in Indonesia.

  • 20.01 - Edda van Teeffelen: Circular economy in the global south: A multi-level perspective case study analysis of waste-to-briquettes emerging technology in sub-Saharan Africa.

 2019

  • 19.06 - Mariana Tapia Gutierrez: Electricity access provision and then what? An investigation on the effects of electricity access in rural Mexico.

  • 19.05 - Nataraj Balasubramanian: Studying Sustainable Transitions Achieved Through Cross-sector Collaboration in Underserved Contexts. 

  • 19.04 - Sasinipha Chucherd: Pathways towards sustainability: An analysis of Bangkok’s public transportation system through sustainability assessment and niche explorations.

  • 19.03 - Paul Bierling: The potential of hybrid floating pv-hydropower plants in Vietnam. An energy justice perspective.

  • 19.02 - Tanai Potisat: Successful governance of mini-grids: A perspective from community-based island electrification in Thailand.

  • 19.01 - Merlijn Borneman: An investigation of the sustainability trade-offs of the cocoa supply chain connecting the Netherlands with the main and most interesting cocoa supplying countries (Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Ecuador) between circa 1975-2015.

 2018

  • 18.07 - Jeroen van Hemmen: Governing Rural Waste - A case study to the implementation of the eight design principles to solid waste management in Bali.

  • 18.06 - Milou Derks: Challenges for Sustainable Performance of Government initiated Rural Microgrids Analysis of Incentives and policy framework for Indonesia.

  • 18.05 - Jaara Bijvoet: Energy access for enterprises in developing countries

  • Exploring the role for renewable energy technologies to address the energy issues in Kenya.

  • 18.04 - Dion Visser: Sorting it out: An analysis of waste management provisions and realities on Bali.

  • 18.03 - Micky van Gemert: The Influence of contextual factors on “last-mile” distribution models for solar home system distributors in East Africa.

  • 18.02 - Santiago Angel Nieto: Barriers and solutions to scale up green microfinance, Insights from a case study in Colombia.

  • 18.01 - Mercedes Fuentes Velasco: Use of Mangrove Wood as a Raw Material for Renewable Energy; Case Study on a Small Island in Indonesia.

 2017

  • 17.08 - Britte Bouchaut: Rural Sanitation Facilities and Quality of Life: A mixed methods analysis of the contribution of Safe Water Gardens to the Quality of Life in Bintan, Indonesia.

  • 17.07 - Benedicte van Houtert: Cultural differences hampering turning e-waste to gold in Africa: Intercultural cooperation for sustainable handling of e-waste in sub Saharan Africa.

  • 17.06 - Arturo Daniel Salinas Galvan: Drivers of Stove Stacking in the Cooking System: A case stuy on the Adoption of Advanced Clean Cookingstoves in Northern Vietnam.

  • 17.05 - Muhammad Husni Mubarok: Capacities and Accountabilities of Stakeholders in Indonesia’s Rural Electrification Program. A view from Responsible Innovation and Learning Approaches.

  • 17.04 - Laura Wong Sagel: Women interaction with biogas technologies in rural areas. A case study in Narino and Huila, Colombia.

  • 17.03 - Jiayi Zeng: When micro-grids meet the central grid: The emergence of grid interconnection as innovation to address the realibility issue of rural electrification.

  • 17.02 - Ana Gabriela Dávila Gavilanes: Feasibility Analysis of Electric Road Transportation. Introduction in Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands.

  • 17.01 - Ellen Hoefsloot: Buying into the Kenyan solar market; Exploring user perspectives on investing in solar electricity.

2016

  • 16.05 - Mutia Prabawati: Sustainability of rural electrification projects: Case Study of Private Sector Intervention in Indonesia.

  • 16.04 - Si Liu: Jatropha Biofuel Development in Cultivation and Processing In China from 2007 to 2012: A Field Study.

  • 16.03 - Rodrigo González López: Identifying enabling and hindering factors to design better business models for rural electrification: Rural Uganda case study.

  • 16.02 - Hasna Afifah: Evaluation of State-Sponsored Rural Electrification Project in Indonesia: A case study of Pengantap Hamlet, West Nusa Tenggara and lessons from process and learning-based approach.

  • 16.01 - Joaquin Corella Puente: Augmenting the SNM framework as a practical tool for sustainable innovation in the South. Design and implementation of technologies for small-scale farmers in Northern Mexico.

 2015

  • 15.03 - Jonathan Rodriguez Polit: Exploration of the User-Value of Rural Electrification through Solar Home Systems in Southwestern Uganda: A Case Study. 

  • 15.02 - Mara van Welie: NGOs’ transformative approaches. Exploring how Cordaid can contribute to a fundamental change of the sanitation system in urban informal settlements in low-income countries.

  • 15.01 - Peter Kuin: No view from nowhere; studying diverging stakeholders’ framework to reduce conflict over water resources in Loitokitok

 2014

  • 14.06 - Eric Gold: Minimizing implementation failure in rural energy projects in development. A responsible innovation approach.

  • 14.05 - Bipashyee Ghosh: Sustainability appraisal of emerging trajectories in solar photovoltaic and urban systems in India and Thailand. A multi-criteria mapping analysis.

  • 14.04 - Ariane Biemond: African Cotton Production in Transition; requirements for achieving a breakthrough of sustainable cultivation in the Ethiopian cotton sector.

  • 14.03 - Iliana Lykissa: A socio-technical evaluation of Solar Home Systems in Uganda: A case study with SolarNow.

  • 14.02 - Benedikt Wirmer: A functional approach to guide sustainable innovations in the sanitation chain. Malawi.

  • 14.01 - Maro Roussou: The application of participatory methods to co-develop sustainable solutions for domestic hot water and filtration of grey water. Promotion of effective participation of an indigenous school in rural Mexico.

 2013

  • 13.07 - Joep de Boer: Building a brickmakers’ cooperative in Lubuk Alung, Indonesia; an analysis of justifications and conflict situations emerging in the process of building the cooperative.

  • 13.06 - Julian Vargas Talavera: Exploring the potential of small biodigesters for electricity production in developing countries. A multi-level analysis on possible adoption in Uganda and Bolivia.

  • 13.05 - Sander Dikken: Socio-economic assessment of niche opportunities for sustainable fish- and shellfish cultivation with micro algae. Cases in the Netherlands and Tanzania.

  • 13.04 - Joosje Oosterbaan: Housing towards prosperity: an actor-network analysis of the enactment of an urban redevelopment policy and grassroots vision in the Beetham a neighbourhood of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

  • 13.03 - Roché Mahomedradja: The role of expectations and the societal impact regarding the use of Jatropha as a biofuel feedstock: Insights from India in pursuit of a biodiesel industry.

  • 13.02 - Kristine van Tubergen: "Partnering up in Base of Pyramid projects".

  • 13.01 - Martijn Pastoors: Jatrophamania: A multi-perspective evaluation of Jatropha initiatives in Tanzania and Lombok, Indonesia.

 2012

  • 12.07 - Todo Hotma Tua Simarmata: Developing Transition Paths toward Sustainable Solar PV Development for Rural Electrification in Indonesia.

  • 12.06 - Arina Schoonbeek: Sustainable Business Model: Analyzing the Activities of Renewable Energy Organizations for Poverty Reduction in Indonesia and the Great Lakes Region in Africa.

  • 12.05 - Harini Challapally: Clean Development Mechanism's (CDM) contribution to clean energy technology development in India.

  • 12.04 - Willem Giesbers: Dutch private sector-driven development cooperation policy. An institutional analysis.

  • 12.03 - Fernando Flores Gallegos: Social Capital: the linking piece for a sustainable development puzzle? Mexico.

  • 12.02 - Frans van Herwijnen: Prepaid water in Namibia: Understanding the ongoing transition.

  • 12.01 - Lisanne Saes: Prepaid water in Namibia: The impact of prepaid household water meters on the inhabitants and the municipality of Otjiwarongo.

 2011

  • 11.04 - Rosa Kuipers: Success factors for the logistics of human nutrients in urban areas for use in agriculture. Philippines/India.

  • 11.03 - Naomi Baan Hofman: Cultivating under Contract. An Actor-Network perspective on the socio-technical shaping of farmers' practices in north India.

  • 11.02 - Jacqueline Kooij: Microhydropower in Indonesia. Reflecting on learning processes.

  • 11.01 - Bart Hellings: Using Carbon Credits for Social Entrepreneurship: A case study at Diligent Tanzania ltd.

 2010

  • 10.06 - Otto Maria Jandl: Barriers for the employment of floating invasive weeds for biogas production in local communities in West African Developing Countries.

  • 10.05 - Michiel Roks: Size and Sustainability: The treatment of smallholders in sustainability certification of biomass for energy purposes. Tanzania.

  • 10.04 - I. Kahraman: Analysing the Barriers and opportunities for the Turkish PV Market.

  • 10.03 - Sanne Heijnen: The impact of small scale renewable energy projects in least developed countries - a baseline study. Tanzania.

  • 10.02 - Souliman Nnafie: Assessing Political Responsibility of Transnational Advocacy Networks through Social Network Analysis. An Empirical Study

  • 10.01 - Suyash Jolly: Upscaling of niche experiments in PV solar energy for transition to sustainability in India.