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Abdulhadi, N H (1997) Simulation as a tool for re-engineering construction processes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Akeel, N F (1989) A database tool for statistically based construction cost estimate, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Al-Haddad, S (2020) State transportation agencies: A quantitative study on the use of construction engineering and inspection consultants and their impact on project performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Al-Rasheed, K A (1997) Construction schedule logic development: The impact of visualization, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Al-Tabtabai, H M (1989) PROCON: A knowledge-based approach to construction project control, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Albalawi, R K (2023) Comprehensive analysis of the multiskilling strategy among craft professionals in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Albattah, M A (2016) A critical analysis of the structural changes related to craft demographics influencing craft supply and demand in the United States across multiple dimensions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Albert, A (2013) Strategies for construction hazard recognition, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Alruqi, W M (2019) Predicting construction safety performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Alruwaythi, O (2017) Influence of engineering information format, demographics, and spatial cognition on craft worker performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Alruwaythi, O F (2017) Influence of engineering information format, demografics and spatial cognition on craft worker performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Alsamadani, R M (2013) Measuring, modeling, and assessing safety communication in construction crews in the US using social network analysis, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Antillon, E I (2016) An exploration of the influence of public-private-partnerships on the life cycle design decision-making process of highway projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Antoine, A L C (2017) Performance-based project delivery selection for highway design and construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Apipattanavis, S (2007) Stochastic nonparametric methods for multi-site weather generation and flood frequency estimation: Applications to construction delay, hydrology and agricultural modeling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Arneson, E (2018) Construction capacity: How regional construction supply chains respond to disruptions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Beitelmal, W H (2016) Towards an infrastructure asset management organizational model for developing countries, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Bogus, S M (2004) Concurrent engineering strategies for reducing design delivery time, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Bonham, D R (2015) The derivation and implications of a master code of accounts for mechanical piping systems, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Butler, C J (2005) The relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership behavior in construction industry leaders, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Chang, K (2004) Multiattribute weighting models for best-value selection in public sector design-build projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dicks, E P (2023) Analysis of risk identification and relationships for major engineering and construction transportation projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Esmaeili, B (2012) Identifying and quantifying construction safety risks at the attribute level, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Farokhnia, K (2013) Nonstructural vulnerability functions for building categories, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Gransberg, D D (2004) Life cycle evaluation criteria for design-build highway pavement projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Han, S H (1999) Risk-based go/no-go decision making model for international construction projects: The cross-impact analysis approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Hardison, D C (2018) Hazard recognition in design: Evaluating the effects of design information on hazard recognition performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Hariri-Ardebili, M A (2015) Performance based earthquake engineering of concrete dams, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Harper, C M (2014) Measuring project integration using relational contract theory, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Huang, P-Y (1994) Extensible object-oriented computer-aided design system, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Jordan, E (2012) Pathways to community recovery: A qualitative comparative analysis of post-disaster outcomes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kaminsky, J (2013) Social sustainability of sanitation infrastructure in developing communities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: complexity; education; efficiency; failure; sustainability; organizational theory; Bangladesh; Guatemala; qualitative comparative analysis; interview
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- URL: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1493001029
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In this dissertation I build theory of the social sustainability of onsite household sanitation infrastructure by leveraging organizational theory, using data collected from rural households in Guatemala and Bangladesh. The overarching research question asks what causes high failure rates in onsite household sanitation systems? This work is important because of the large number of people served by onsite technology types and also because of high observed rates of infrastructure abandonment. Since sanitation technologies are vitally important to public and environmental health, universal coverage is an urgent goal. Unfortunately, it is far from being met. As a first step towards addressing this problem, I use a literature review and expert panel to identify factors important to the sustainability of sanitation infrastructure. This work (Chapter 2) identified the importance of social factors and also showed that interactions between various factors explained the contention regarding the importance of ten factors. As such, the rest of my research focused on the topic of social sustainability, with the methodological goal of retaining attention to complexity. To build theory of social sustainability I use constructs of legitimacy and status from organizational theory. While organizational theory has never before been applied to infrastructure systems, it deals with groups of people using technology to achieve shared goals, and this is precisely what we see with infrastructure. I analyze household level interview data from Bangladesh using crisp set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to describe sanitation abandonment as a form of organizational decoupling (Chapter 3) by contrasting households with socially sustainable or socially unsustainable infrastructure. This research shows that neither a lack of demand nor economic barriers caused sanitation abandonment in the communities selected for this research. Instead the causal mechanism is decoupling, which is founded on perceptions of efficiency (whether or not desired infrastructure services are actually achieved) and competing rational myths (beliefs regarding how and why things ought to be done). This analysis leads us to suggest that, due to the impact on social sustainability, odor management should be required in the updated definition of improved sanitation as we revise and replace the Millennium Development Goals. This research also empirically identifies pathways that Guatemalan households took to achieve socially sustainable sanitation infrastructure (Chapter 4). The most practically useful of these shows that the combination of consequential legitimacy (a moral understanding of outcomes) and comprehensibility legitimacy (a cognitive model connecting outcomes to processes) leads to a socially sustainable outcome in a full 50% of the household cases studied for this work. Taken together, these findings explain and will allow us to better design sanitation infrastructure, technical knowledge mobilization, and educational outreach to support socially sustainable infrastructure.
Komarek, R L D (2020) Exploration and assessment of leadership development in engineering students, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kong, J S (2001) Lifetime maintenance strategies for deteriorating structures, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kraft, E R (2013) Alternative quality assurance organizations for highway design and construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kraiem, Z M (1988) DISCON: An expert system for construction contract disputes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Lee, S (2007) Entry decision for unsolicited build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects: Real options approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Litchfield, K I (2014) Characterizing and understanding the growing population of socially engaged engineers through engineers without borders-USA, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mesa, H A (2016) Modeling performance of integrated project delivery systems in design and construction, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Minooei, F (2018) Towards a deeper understanding of the U.S. workforce development system in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Molenaar, K R (1997) Public sector design-build: A model for project selection, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Nasr, E B (2005) An integrated project planning and control system approach for measuring project performance, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Nevett Fernández, G (2020) Duration estimators and productivity metrics for highway construction, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
O'Brien, J (2012) Exponential random graph models of social networks for engineering design firms, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Ock, J-H (1998) Integrated decision process model (idepm) for the development of the build-operate-transfer (bot) highway project proposals, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Oguz Erkal, E D (2022) Predicting serious injury and fatality exposure in construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Opdyke, A (2017) Resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems: A comparative analysis of post-disaster shelter coordination, stakeholder participation, and training, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Ou, C-S (2007) Sustainable infrastructure materials: A life cycle assessment approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Palagi, S (2020) Achieving risk reduction and livability: Connecting relocation decision making to outcomes at relocation communities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Petcherdchoo, A (2004) Maintaining condition and safety of deteriorating bridges by probabilistic models and optimization, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Poleacovschi, C (2017) The role of social and governance mechanisms on the process of knowledge seeking in engineering organizations, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rojas Molina, E M (1997) Developing a web-centric process to support inspection, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rosas Sanchez, L (2008) Application of game modeling to good tunneling practice, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Salamah, A A A (1989) Coad: A knowledge-based expert system for conceptual estimates and designs, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Salas, R I (2020) Empirical evaluation of construction safety: Insights from economic trends, national cultures and workplace injury rates, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Schroeder, H P (1991) Dycam 1.0: Dynamic construction activity model, a decision support tool for construction planning, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Sears, M H (2020) Advanced eye tracking analysis for investigating construction craft professional interactions with 2D drawings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Shan, Y (2014) Integrated information modeling of construction project productivity, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Shane, J S (2006) A fundamental study of scope definition in early highway project development, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Stanford, M S (2017) Competition and price analysis of indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contracts for construction, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Techera, U D (2017) Measuring and managing construction worker fatigue, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Thiengburanathum, P (2003) Design of construction production systems: Representation, taxonomy, and design framework, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Tixier, A J-P (2015) Leveraging unstructured construction injury reports to predict safety outcomes and model safety risk using natural language processing, machine learning, and probability theory, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Tran, D (2013) A risk-based model to select delivery methods for highway design and construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Walters, J P (2015) A systems approach to sustainable rural water infrastructure in developing countries, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Wanberg, J (2014) The role and use of communities of practice to facilitate knowledge sharing in project based organizations, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Welfare, K S (2020) Perceptions of construction and the human factors climate through mixed methods, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Won, S J (2011) A general performance model for design-build highway pavement warranty decisions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Zelinka, D L (2019) Systems approaches to transdisciplinary sustainable development issues, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Colorado at Boulder.