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Strategies to reduce product waste in the consumer packaged goods industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The cost of waste for products such as soft drinks, shelf stable dry food, and dairy in the consumer packaged goods industry is massive, about $15 billion annually in the U.S.A. This thesis focuses on waste associated with ...
Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Inclusive wealth (IW) measures the productive base of an economy, which is a linear index of its capital asset stocks. Changes to IW per capita over time track changes to intergenerational human well-being, thus non-declining ...
Model use in sustainability negotiations and decisions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Sustainability negotiations and decisions require the integration of scientific information with stakeholder interests. Mathematical models help elucidate the physical world and therefore may orient the negotiators in a ...
Negotiated collaboration : a study in flexible infrastructure design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis frames design in infrastructure public-private partnerships (P3s) as an exercise in negotiated collaboration. I investigate whether the collaborative design process in P3s can systematically deliver the benefits ...