Knowledge database

Below you can find a list of publications by Enviu and also by students written in cooperation with Enviu. This overview is updated regularly as new documents are completed. If you are interested in receiving a copy or a summary of a particular document, please send your request to the knowledge database manager.

Enviu Library
Volunteers have full access to our Knowledge database and can also benefit from borrowing books and other publications from the ever expanding library at the Enviu office, 100 Pannekoekstraat, Rotterdam. 

Publications: Sustainable business development
Theses
• Brand new packaging – The development of a brand and sustainable packaging for healthy snacks (11/09, confidential)
• A case study on the Enviu Knowledge Centre: capturing value creation through a blended model within the EKC community (10/09)
• Yummm! Het nieuwe gezonde snackconcept (07/09, confidential)
• Build a self-sufficient Enviu Knowledge Centre through Small & Medium sized Enterprises and Partners (07/09, confidential)
• Ready to fly your dream? Enviu Light Package for YSE's (07/09, confidential)
• Recycling at its best: commercialisation of Le Metisee in the Netherlands (06/09, confidential).
• The Housing market in urban Ghana (06/09)
• Business model and implementation for OS House (06/09)
• Empowerment of YSE's through knowledge-based solutions (06/09, confidential)
• Product development for EKC (06/09, confidential)
• Feasibility of Direct Injection upgrade kits (06/09)
• Rotterdam Innovation Lab (04/09, confidential)
• OS House Urban upgrading research (03/09)
• Microfinance: possibilities to empower rickshaw dribvers in India (10/08)
• Ecodesign from recycled materials (09/08, confidential)
• Designing a sustainable sound system (08/08, confidential).
• Hybrid Tuktuk believing (06/08, confidential)
• Hybrid tuktuk marketing plan (08/08, confidential)
• Cooperation in 2nd hand clothing recycling chains (07/08, confidential)
• From waste to fashion jeans (07/08, confidential)
• The afterlife of a T-shirt, assessment of self-regulation as sustainability instrument in the second hand clothing recycling chain (06/08, confidential)
• Design and Decision Making: Backcasting Using Principles to Implement Cradle-to-Cradle (06/08)
• Exploratory designs for office furniture from recycled materials (04/08, confidential)
• Kantoormeubilair uit textielplaatmateriaal (01/08, confidential)
• Does CSR practice support Business Reputation and business performance of firms? (12/07)
• FluxFloor, energy converting dance floor for Sustainable Dance Club (confidential, 09/07)
• New sustainable concepts for the clubbing scene (confidential, 09/07).
• Stakeholder analysis for sustainable tourism in Ushuaia (09/07).
• Sustainable tourism in India. Success or failure? (08/07)
• Argentina: the implementation of sustainable tourism in an area of scenic beauty (07/07)
• Microfinance in Chile: Business or development? (07/07)
• The dialectic of need and want. Communicating awareness towards sustainability (06/07)
• Incorporating sustainable development in the Chilean Tourist Business as opportunity for success (06/07)
• Tackling the waste issues on Isla Navarino. A research into the possibilities of waste materials (04/07)
• Marketing sustainable tourism development. A case study of Isla Navarino, Chile (08/06)
• Hikers Paradise. The Southernmost campsite on the planet (06/06)
• Evaluating the tourism sector in Puerto Natales: shortcomings, eco-tourism and potential (05/06)
• Sustainable development of tourism micro-enterprises on Isla Navarino (04/06)
• Assessment and establishment of the ecotourism image of Isla Navarino (09/05)
• Sustainable development on Isla Navarino: The role of ecotourism (12/04)

Additional research
• Knowledge centre benchmark ( 06/09, confidential)
• Issuedriven ondernemerschap. Een innovatief concept? (09/08)
• Env!u’S Hybrid Tuktuk - Stakeholder analysis (07/08)
• Chemical analysis regarding textiles (Research concerning Textile Chains) (06/08).
• Cradle to Cradle societal barriers - bitumen case (06/08)
• Rechtsvormen en sociaal ondernemerschap (01/08)
• Exploratory research on the auto-rickshaw sector in India (confidential, 10//07)
• The microfinance promise: do Dutch financial microfinance organisations walk their talk (10/07)
• Voluntary CO2 emission compensation, a viable business case? (10/07)
• The impact of microfinance. case studies with special focus to impact on MDGs (09/07)
• Energy generating dance floor feasibilities (01/07, confidential)
• Future of Puerto Williams (08/06)
• Perception of Chilean tourism companies regarding CSR (08/06)
• Report - Is there Energy to Change? Renewable energy Isla Navarino (07/06)
• Enviu ( Research Framework Document) (11/05)
• Ecolabelling, applicable for success or message of failure? (10/05)
• Implementing sustainable eco-tourism on Isla Navarino, advice based on other cases (10/04)
• Report on microcredits, (10/04)
• Privatisation of the Electricity Market (10/04)
• Navarino Island, Chile – At the southernmost end of the world (09/03)


Publications: Civil Society of the future
Theses
• Match-making of volunteers at Enviu (11/09, confidential)
• Evaluation and optimization of a production or logistics chain, based on Cradle to Cradle principles (03/09, confidential)
• Virtual Volunteering for Social and Environmental Change (04/09)
• Integratie van duurzaamheid in curricula van hoger onderwijs, mbv Global Minded (06/09)
• Protecting IP in an online environment (01/09, confidential)
• Dare to be a volunteer? (09/08)
• Internationally franchising the SDC (09/08, confidential)
• Strategic marketing for the Innovation- Lab (08/08, confidential)
• Effective use of social media tools for Enviu (06/08, confidential)
• Nonprofit experience: een vertaling van bestaande vrijwilligerstheorieen naar een bindende multimediale beleving (06/08)
• Sustainable Dance Club (A sustainable life through dancing) (05/08, confidential)
• Problem-solving capacities of bzzwords: Sustainable development and (NGO) partnership put into practice (05/08)
• Sustainability 2.0 and Enviu. Critical on-line trust factors for a sustainability community website (12/07, confidential)
• Sustainable entrepreneurship and communication. The case of Enviu (09/07)
• Visies op MVO-rollen voor verschillende stakeholders (09/07).
• Promotion of sustainable development in the Russian higher education institutions by means of PR (06/07).
• The role of NGOs in the transition to sustainable development, an eplorative research (12/06)
• Een strijd om macht. Invloed van de relatie tussen NGOs en de VN op de autonomie van nationale staten (11/06)
• The socioeconomic impact of tourism development on the local community of Puerto Williams (11/06)
• Praktijken van verantwoording in ontwikkelingsorganisaties (09/06)
• Final Cultural Report (Puerto Williams) (05/2006)
• NGO-Business Partnerships in the Waste Management sector. What does it take for Enviu to be successful? (08/05)
• Sleeping with the enemy? Positioning of Non Profit organisations towards the private sector in the Netherlands (08/05)
• Building bridges towards the local community, a case study of Enviu on Isla Navarino (06/05)
• Community Involvement in Sustainable tourism development and the Biosphere Reserve, the case of Isla Navarino, (06/05)
• Towards new forms of partnerships between NGOs and the Dutch government (06/05)
• Using affinity marketing, targeting traveling non-profit organizations to offer travel insurance brokerage (05/05)
• Where the money flows from (05/05)

Additional research
• ''The way of automatically sorting textiles'' (01/08, confidential)
• Success of NGO-NGO cooperation, (06/07)
• Volunteer motivation within Enviu, Iris Soekhai, (02/07, confidential)
• Beyond microfinance - overview of providers in NL (12/06)
• Enviu and Intellectual Property (08/06)
• Internationalisation strategy: franchising and other options Lewis (05/06, confidential)
• The innovation abilities of NGOs (07/05)
• New income generating activities from Dutch Civil Society (07/05)
• NGO strategy: the best way to predict the future is to invent it (12/04)


Publications: Governance and sustainability
Theses
• Sustainability and City strategic development: the case of Rotterdam (09/08).
• Towards a successful Local Agenda 21 on Isla Navarino. An analysis of success factors of LA 21 with a focus on the role of NGOs (12/06)
• A comparative study (benchmark) of sustainable tourism development in National Parks (11/06)
• Economic valuation methods. A case study on Torres del Paine National park (11/06)
• Implementation of a Tourism Monitor in Torres del Paine (06/06)
• The role of government policy in sustainable tourism development: a case study for Isla Navarino (12/06)
• Enviu and the Convention on Biodiversity. Potential and pitfalls (08/05)
• A stakeholder approach. Opening doors to Ecotourism on Isla Navarino (09/04)

Additional research
• Review of best practices in handling socio-cultural impacts of sustainable tourism projects (10/05)
• From fishery to sustainable tourism in Southern Chile: the impacts of a change of livelihood (06/05)
• Do's and dont's in Biosphere Reserve development (cases, 05/05)
• “Towards a sustainable future”, A consultancy report for: Rabobank (10/2006)


Other
• Streamlining international cooperation process at Enviu (01/09, confidential)
• Rotterdam Duurzame Evenementenstad, Adviesrapport Enviu (08/08, confidential)
• Internship Report - Hybrid Tuktuk (07/08, confidential)
• Innovation Lab Business Plan (2008, confidential)
• Kaospilots (report) (2005-2008)
• Trechter of zeef? Een keuzemodel voor maatschappelijke betrokkenheid Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (06/07)
• ‘Innovatief gebruik van niet herdraagbare tweedehands kleding als basismateriaal voor productontwikkeling’(Aanzet tot innovatie en productontwikkeling, identificatie van marktkansen en creëren van concrete cases.) (07/07, confidential)
• Handboek Enviu ( 02/07)
• Final Cultural Report (Coordinator Culture Puerto Williams) (05/06)
• Enviu and sustainable entrepreneurship (Position paper 2) (12/06)
• Final Placement Report-Business Service Developer Puerto Williams (01/06)
• Enviu and sustainable development of natural areas (Position 1) (09/05)
• Diagnóstico de los involucrados en Parque Nacional Torres del Paine (06/05)
• Estimación de los beneficios económicos obtenidos al interior del Parque Nacional Torres del Paine 2001