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1. Exploring the "Culture of Non-Payment" in the post-apartheid South Africa
Abstract : ”Residents are refusing to pay until an effort is made to clean up, while authorities are refusing to remove refuse until residents pay”. This is the front-page headline of a prominent morning newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa that strikes to the core of what this research seeks to explore. READ MORE
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2. The movement pattern of horse and rider in different degrees of collection
Abstract : While some degree of collection is considered as basic schooling work for the riding horse, learning to perform the most collected movements, such as piaffe and passage, can be a performance limiting factor for dressage horses. The aim of this thesis was to study biomechanics of horse-rider interaction in varying degrees of collection. READ MORE
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3. Advancing the Frontier of Extended Producer Responsibility: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in non-OECD countries
Abstract : Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has become a salient issue in non-OECD countries. With a growing awareness about serious damages to the environment and human health from a lack of safe treatment and recycling of WEEE, there has been a search for policy responses in several of these countries. READ MORE
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4. Distributed Optimization of P2P Media Delivery Overlays
Abstract : Media streaming over the Internet is becoming increasingly popular. Currently, most media is delivered using global content-delivery networks, providing a scalable and robust client-server model. However, content delivery infrastructures are expensive. READ MORE
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5. Managing the flows? Furthering a socio-material flow methodology for industrial ecology
Abstract : This dissertation defends the thesis that application of the socio-material methodology that I present can assist environmentally more effective decision-making. The methodology provides a recipe for a systematic and accurate understanding of how human actions determine environmental impacts via material (tangible) flows. READ MORE