Search for dissertations about: "low cost housing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words low cost housing.
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1. Evolution of Future Heating Systems - Modeling of an Expanding City Using a Dynamic Systems Approach
Abstract : Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is central to meeting climate change mitigation targets. Since the energy sector is one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters, it is essential that all the actors within the energy sector reduce their respective emissions. READ MORE
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2. Combined Assessment of Future Heat Supply and Demand - A Dynamic Systems Approach
Abstract : In order to meet climate change mitigation targets, the use of fossil fuels has to be reduced and, eventually, be phased out in all sectors. As the heating sector occupies a central place in energy systems, especially in Nordic countries, it is affected by and affects other energy sectors. READ MORE
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3. In the Name of Energy Efficiency : Justice and energy poverty in the energy transition of Swedish housing
Abstract : The energy transition of housing is accelerating in parallel with economic inequality reaching historically high levels. There is thus an opportunity to reduce inequalities in living conditions, but also a risk that the costs of the transition are unequally distributed and aggravate existing inequalities. READ MORE
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4. Housing clusters for densification within an upgrading strategy : the case of Kampala, Uganda
Abstract : The process of urbanisation in the urban centres of most sub-Saharan African countries has been brought about by numerous factors including rural to urban migration, natural increase in population, and in-migration. In Uganda due to these factors the capital city Kampala is growing rapidly. READ MORE
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5. Towards an efficient use of infrastructure and the built environment : Essays in transport and housing economics
Abstract : All four papers in the thesis share a common theme: how to achieve an efficient use of infrastructure and the built environment. In the presence of externalities, pricing according to the (short-run) marginal cost is one answer on how this can be achieved and the first two papers estimates parts of the marginal cost of traffic. READ MORE
