IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
About the Book Series
IHE Delft PhD programme leads to a deepening of a field of specialisation. PhD fellows do scientific research, often with conclusions that directly influence their region. At IHE Delft, PhD researchers from around the world participate in problem-focused and solution-oriented research on development issues, resulting in an inspiring research environment. PhD fellows work together with other researchers from many countries dealing with topics related to water and the environment.
PhD research is often carried out in the ‘sandwich’ model. Preparation and final reporting – the first and last portion of the programme – are carried out in Delft, while actual research is done in the fellow’s home country, under co-supervision of a local institute. Regular contacts with the promotor are maintained through visits and long-distance communication. This enables researchers to employ solutions directly to problems in their geographical region.
IHE Delft PhD degrees are awarded jointly with a university. The degrees are highly valued and fully recognised in all parts of the world.
Sanitation in Unsewered Urban Poor Areas: Technology Selection, Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Grey Water Treatment
1st Edition
By Alex Yasoni Katukiza
March 06, 2014
The PhD Thesis covers a review of sanitation technology options for urban slums including existing technologies, their application status and the knowledge gaps. A novel method for selection of sustainable sanitation technologies in urban slums is presented as an alternative to software ...
Sulfate Reduction for Remediation of Gypsiferous Soils and Solid Wastes
1st Edition
By Pimluck Kijjanapanich
March 06, 2014
Construction and demolition debris (CDD) and gypsiferous soils contain elevated concentrations of sulfate which can cause several environmental and agricultural problems. Reduction of the sulfate content of CDD and gypsiferous soils is an option to overcome these problems. This study aimed to ...
Modelling the Future Water Infrastructure of Cities
1st Edition
By Arlex Sanchez Torres
January 27, 2014
Many cities around the world are facing considerable pressure to cope with urban development, sustaining economic growth and providing basic living conditions. Urban infrastructure is aging and uncontrolled urbanization leads to considerable pressure on economic resources. Hence there is a need for...
Experimental and Modeling Studies of Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands Treating Domestic Wastewater
1st Edition
By Njenga Mburu
January 10, 2014
Sustainable sanitation and water pollution control calls for adoption of affordable and efficient wastewater treatment technologies. In the developing countries, the safe management of wastewater is not widespread. There is therefore a need for an appropriate technology that can reliably achieve ...
Water Resources Strategies to Increase Food Production in the Semi-Arid Tropics: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By David Love
December 18, 2013
Water demand in southern Africa continues to rise, as urban areas expand and as agricultural water demand rises to meet the millennium development food security goals. Water resource availability in the northern Limpopo Basin has declined over the last 30 years, and will decline further under ...
Simultaneous Sulfate Reduction and Metal Precipitation in an Inverse Fluidized Bed Reactor: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Denys Kristalia Villa Gomez
November 25, 2013
Industrial activities like textile processing and mining are typical sources of heavy metal-rich wastewaters. The sulfate reducing process has become an attractive method for the production of sulfide to precipitate metals since most of these streams also contain sulfate, which is the electron ...
Sustainable Gold Mining Wastewater Treatment by Sorption Using Low-Cost Materials: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Mike Agbesi Acheampong
November 18, 2013
Sorption technique was employed to remove heavy metals from gold mining effluent using natural and plant materials for sustainability. An assessment of the effluent quality of a gold mining company in Ghana indicated that arsenic, copper and cyanide were the major pollutants in the process effluent...
Emergence and Evolution of Endogenous Water Institutions in an African River Basin: Local Water Governance and State Intervention in the Pangani River Basin, Tanzania, UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Charles Hans Komakech
July 09, 2013
Water management challenges in many basins of Sub-Saharan Africa are increasing due to rapid urbanisation, poverty and food insecurity, energy demands, and climate change. These challenges put additional demands on existing water institutions, and their capacity to reconcile competing claims. In ...
Adaptive Multi-reservoir-based Flood Control and Management for the Yellow River: Towards a Next Generation Software System - UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Shengyang Li
June 20, 2013
The Yellow River experienced many major floods in the past, often with catastrophic effects for the North China Plain. After establishing the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) of the Ministry of Water Resources, a number of reservoirs were constructed for flood control and water resources ...
Competences in context: Knowledge and capacity development in public water management in Indonesia and The Netherlands; UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Judith Kaspersma
June 19, 2013
International cooperation for reaching development goals has expanded gradually since the 1950s. The effectiveness of the Overseas Development Aid (ODA) has become a topic of great public interest. A growing body of experience exists to demonstrate that finance alone is not sufficient for ...
Risk and Uncertainty Analysis for Sustainable Urban Water Systems: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Krishna Bahadur Khatri
June 19, 2013
A combination of future change pressures - including unprecedented growth in population, urbanization, socio-economic, and climate change - are imposing new stresses on the earth’s resources and society’s ability to maintain or improve infrastructure systems and environmental quality. While ...
A Decision Framework for Integrated Wetland-River Basin Management in a Tropical and Data Scarce Environment: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis
1st Edition
By Mijail Eduardo Arias Hidalgo
March 25, 2013
Traditionally, wetlands were considered separately from river basin systems. However, nowadays it is becoming common practice to follow an integrated approach in wetland-riverine watershed analysis and management. Such approach requires not only adequate representations of all relevant bio-physical...