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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Urban Policy Implications on the Electric Vehicle Transition in Berlin and Washington, DC

Sänger, Tina January 2018 (has links)
This thesis argues for an approach which goes beyond the conventional urban climate governance view. With engagement in social-technical practices, a more sustainable and inclusive way of transforming the city can be accomplished. One way of doing so is with the offering of the urban living lab as a playground for real-life experiments. With a purposive intervention in an urban socio-technical system, the three- dimensional concept of urban environmental governance, socio-technical experiments and strategic experiments with designed policies can create a more sustainable urban transition. The urban electric vehicle transition is just one example of how these three concepts can be applied. In order to demonstrate the interaction of a sustainable urban transition, an empirical case study was conducted.   This thesis makes a conceptual contribution by engaging with current understanding of urban sustainability transition, using the urban electric vehicle transition as a reference point. The insights of this study extend the theories of the socio-technical system and argue that it is not only about social and technological innovation but how multiple innovations are experimented with and combined in an existing urban context. In addition, the research addresses how this transition is governed on a municipality level and is achieved through a multiple case study approach, analysed through the lens of environmental governance and offers an empirical exploration and develops the theoretical and conceptual framework of the socio-technical system further.
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[en] A STRATEGIC MEASUREMENT MODEL TO MONITOR AND EVALUATE CIRCULARITY PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS FROM A TRANSITION PERSPECTIVE / [pt] MODELO ESTRATÉGICO DE MEDIÇÃO PARA MONITORAR E AVALIAR O DESEMPENHO EM CIRCULARIDADE NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES, SEGUNDO UMA PERSPECTIVA DE TRANSIÇÃO

NATHALIA GERONAZZO FRANCO 23 August 2021 (has links)
[pt] A transição para uma economia circular (EC) requer modelos multidimensionais para a definição de objetivos e metas de circularidade em diferentes horizontes temporais, prazos, diretrizes circulares setoriais, políticas públicas nacionais e regionais, entre outros. Visando fornecer estruturas consistentes para decisões de negócios baseadas em evidências, com implicações para os níveis meso e macro de CE, o objetivo desta dissertação é propor um modelo de mensuração estratégica para monitorar e avaliar o desempenho da circularidade no nível micro, integrando GMA e dois métodos multicritério de tomada de decisão. Os principais resultados deste estudo envolvem: (i) uma matriz morfológica genérica composta por oito parâmetros e seus possíveis estados para definir e representar visualmente possíveis cenários de transição de CE para uma determinada organização que pretende evoluir através de transições de CE; (ii) o uso potencial de uma abordagem metodológica híbrida (que combina GMA com dois métodos MCDM) para selecionar os indicadores C mais relevantes para cada estratégia-R pode ser destacado; (iii) uma lista inicial de 58 C-indicadores e métricas associadas a dez estratégias-R e um conjunto de 38 C-indicadores selecionados por meio da adoção do método híbrido AHP-TOPSIS; (iv) definição de dez indicadores de circularidade compostos associados às estratégias R, bem como um Índice de Performance de Circularidade (IPC) geral, e um procedimento passo a passo para calculá-los em diferentes cenários de transição de CE. De uma perspectiva de transição circular, os resultados destacam implicações práticas para organizações e cadeias de valor, uma vez que o modelo foi concebido para ser aplicado em diferentes contextos de negócio, especialmente em organizações que irão definir seus objetivos de circularidade e respectivas agendas relativas à transição para uma economia circular. / [en] The concept of a circular economy (CE) transition requires multi-level frameworks regarding the definition of goals and targets for different time horizons, desired change timeframes, sectoral circularity guidelines, and national and regional public policies, among other factors. Aiming to provide consistent frameworks for evidence-based business decisions with implications for the meso and macro levels of CE, the objective of this dissertation is to propose a strategic measurement model to monitoring and evaluating the circularity performance at the micro level by integrating GMA and two multicriteria decision-making methods. The main findings of this study are: (i) a generic morphological matrix comprising eight parameters and their possible states to define and visually represent possible CE transition scenarios for a given organization that aims to evolve through CE transitions; (ii) the potential use of a hybrid methodological approach (that combines GMA with two MCDM methods) for selecting the most relevant C-indicators for each R-strategy could be highlighted; (iii) an initial list of 58 C-indicators and metrics associated to ten R-strategies and a set of 38 selected C-indicators by adopting the hybrid AHP-TOPSIS method; (iv) definition of ten composite C-indicators associated with the R-strategies, as well as an overall Circularity Performance Index (CPI), and a step-by-step procedure to calculate them in different CE transition scenarios. From a CE transition perspective, the results highlighted practical implications for organizations and value chains, once the proposed model is designed to be applied in different business contexts, especially in those organizations that will define their circularity targets and respective agendas concerning CE transitions.

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