Browsing School of Applied Sciences (SAS) (2006-July 2014) by Author "Pollard, Simon"

Browsing School of Applied Sciences (SAS) (2006-July 2014) by Author "Pollard, Simon"

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  • Application of high reliability theory in the water utility sector 
    Bradshaw, R. A. (Cranfield University, 2008-08)
    In the literature, a need was identified to consider the provision of drinking water to be a ‘high reliability’ societal service. This thesis reports on an investigation into the technical and organisational reliability ...
  • Benchmarking risk management practice within the water utility sector 
    MacGillivray, Brian H. (Cranfield University, 2006-12)
    Explicit approaches to risk analysis within the water utility sector, traditionally applied to occupational health and safety and public health protection, are now seeing broader application in contexts including corporate ...
  • Bioaerosol release from composting facilities 
    Mohamed Taha, M. P. B (Cranfield University, 2005-10)
    The use of composting is expected to increase dramatically due to its economic and environmental benefits. For public health protection, regulators and licensing authorities are requesting risk assessments to be conducted ...
  • An evidence base and critique for environmental regulatory reform 
    Taylor, Christopher Michael (Cranfield University, 2013-12)
    Societies have established various forms of governance to protect the natural environment from the adverse effects of human activity. While direct “command and control” regulation has achieved significant improvements ...
  • Improving water asset management when data are sparse 
    Dlamini, Delly (Cranfield University, 2013)
    Ensuring the high of assets in water utilities is critically important and requires continuous improvement. This is due to the need to minimise risk of harm to human health and the environment from contaminated drinking ...
  • New insights into the biotransformation of weathered hydrocarbons in soil 
    Brassington, Kirsty J. (Cranfield University, 2008-03)
    Weathered petroleum hydrocarbons are a highly complex, important soil contaminant. After forty years of petroleum research, weathered hydrocarbons are still not sufficiently understood or appropriately accounted for ...
  • Opening the black box : what makes risk management pervasive in organisations? 
    Mauelshagen, Craig William (Cranfield University, 2012-12-21)
    This thesis is concerned with what pervasive risk management is, and how it can be achieved in practice. Specifically, it examines the effect of social processes and cultural factors on how risk management can be coordinated ...
  • Plausible future scenarios for the UK food and feed system - 2015 and 2030. Report for the UK Food Standards Agency 
    Garnett, Kenisha; Delgado, João; Lickorish, Fiona; Medina-Vayá, Ángel; Magan, Naresh; Shaw, Hayley; Rathé, Anna; Chatterton, Julia; Prpich, George; Pollard, Simon; Terry, Leon A. (Cranfield University, Institute for Environment, Health, Risk and Futures (IEHRF), 2014-06)
    The report describes the key drivers of the wider environment which informed the development of the scenarios. There are case studies of three representative food types, which illustrate how the scenarios may be used to ...
  • Strategic risk management in water utilities: development of a holistic approach linking risks and futures 
    Linares Luis, Ana Margarida (Cranfield University, 2014-06)
    Risk management plays a key role in water utilities. Although tools are well established at operational and tactical levels of management, existing methods at strategic level lack a holistic treatment and a long-term ...
  • Systemic modelling applied to studying outbreaks of exotic animal diseases 
    Delgado, Joao Pedro Correa (Cranfield University, 2011-11)
    Context and rationale – This work originates from policy priorities established within Defra to manage exotic animal diseases (EAD); specifically to understand the causes of low probability events, and to establish ...
  • Towards sustainable landfill management 
    Smith, Richard (2006-11)
    The UK is reliant on landfill as a waste management option with some 72% w/w of municipal waste landfilled in 2003/04. This thesis advances an argument that landfill, as practised historically and currently, is unsustainable. ...

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