Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Evaluation is the systematic determination of the merit, worth and significance of a programme, initiative or intervention. As a young discipline, its empirical study is still limited, especially in Francophone Africa. ...
Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation dynamics from different ...
The construction sector has the potential to contribute to the achievement of essential objectives of sustainable development, such as the fight against climate change, the defense of the environment or the design of cities. ...
The increasing interest in the real estate investment has led to the emergence of new real estate investment vehicles, adding more complexity to the real estate market which increasingly resembles to financial markets. ...
(English) Agro-food systems in indigenous communities, due to their characteristics of complexity and adaptability, must be studied from a multidimensional perspective. In this class of systems, economic, political, ...
Urban energy systems are an essential part of cities, which require a reliable and abundant supply of electricity and other services (such as water, fuel for transportation or food). On the other hand, the double crisis ...
This Thesis aims for contributing in the deployment and operation of Smart Grid, in isolated rural areas. As it would be expected, technological developments and investments in the electrical field have mainly focused on ...
This study set out initially to compare characteristics and possible regeneration approach between typical brownfield sites and semi-like brownfield sites in geopolitical conflict zones to identify similarities and ...
Aquesta tesi s'emmarca dins l'àmbit de l'Economia Regional. Es pretén fer un estudi estadístic de les comarques de Catalunya amb un triple objectiu:<br/>- Estudiar les tipologies que es poden determinar a partir de la ...
El problema que aborda aquesta investigació és el de la sinistralitat laboral o, dit d'una altra manera, la pèrdua de salut o qualitat de vida que es produeix en l'àmbit laboral. <br/>Tal com es reconeix unànimement, ...
El objetivo de la investigación es el estudio de los rasgos que caracterizan la estructura territorial de Bogotá y los 17 municipios de su área de influencia inmediata, y el análisis de los cambios ocurridos durante el ...
In principle we can say that this thesis defines the informal trade as all commercial activity and/or service activities which settle in the streets (pavement and sidewalks) by will and arbitrary way they appropriate a ...
The principie of this research answers to the interest to procure a value for silence. This argument was added to the expectation generated by the "Documento básico de Protección Frente al Ruido (DB-HR) del Código Técnico ...
El objetivo de esta tesis es estudiar los factores que inciden en la intencionalidad de crear empresas en los emprendedores potenciales universitarios de Panamá, partiendo de la hipótesis de que la deseabilidad de crear ...
This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently faced by cities. ...
Small and medium-sized companies have an impact on the environment where they operate, in some cases the effects on the environment can be very important within local communities, causing a series of negative processes ...
El treball d'investigació parteix d'un marc teòric sobre la situació de les ciutats i del seu desenvolupament i busca la relació que pugui haver-hi entre els actes de govern d'una ciutat i la seva situació d'equilibri i ...
This doctoral thesis analyzes the impact of the creation and implementation of transport infrastructures, specifically high-capacity road axes, on the territory and the welfare of the population with a marginal approach: ...
The research object of this dissertation is the City of Rest and Holiday (CRV) of the GATCPAC. A project that was born in 1931, presented at CIAM IV, published in various journals, but never executed because of the Spanish ...
El objeto de esta tesis doctoral se enmarca dentro del ámbito de la Economía de la Educación. Se trata de estudiar los mecanismos de formación de la demanda universitaria que recibe el sistema público presencial en Cataluña. ...
