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Travesset Baró, Oriol (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-20)
The energy sector reform is one of the major challenges that must be faced globally during the current century. The energy model, in which the economic growth of major economies is sustained, based mainly on the intensive ...
Arranz Piera, Pol (Fecha de defensa: 2018-12-03)
Access to energy is crucial to human welfare; no residential, commercial or industrial activity can be conceived without energy supply. At the same time, current dependence on fossil fuels and their negative effects on ...
Vargas, Mónica (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-01)
The research "Antagonistic Territorial Projects and Symbolic Anticooperation in South American mega-infrastructures" aims to understand the confrontation of the various existing territorial projects in South America, as ...
Fittipaldi Gustavino, Mariana (Fecha de defensa: 2014-06-05)
Reclaimed water use is an essential element in the integrated water resources managment. The wastewater treatment and reuse are activities that increase the aquatic capital without depleting the natural resource, whose ...
Miranda Briones, Ricardo (Fecha de defensa: 2021-12-01)
Tree rings play a relevant role for the reconstruction of climatic variables on centuries or millennia-scale. In the presence of anthropogenic climate change, and in the absence of extensive meteorological records, ...
Cortés Duarte, María Carolina (Fecha de defensa: 2023-12-01)
(English) Environmental inequality metrics require complex analyses between social, economic and environmental variables at different scales. The current research develops metrics within this framework to determine ...
Saez Ujaque, Diego (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-17)
(English) This research deepens in the knowledge of the processes and changing dynamics of cities from the perspective of their resilience. The thesis proposes as object the processes of regeneration and transformation of ...
Rey Bolaños, María Antonieta (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-12)
The global environmental change affects rural communities in an unprecedented way and brings transformations in the livelihoods in rural households. Rural households have a growing vulnerability to climate and non-climate ...
Rincón Rodríguez, Angel Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2013-06-28)
El incremento de la utilizaci on de la energ a solar como fuente de generaci on de energ a requiere de una adecuada estimaci on de la radiaci on solar global y directa incidente en la super cie terrestre. La estimaci on ...
Estrada Añokazi, Lena Yanina (Fecha de defensa: 2018-09-12)
The traditional knowledge of our indigenous peoples has allowed them to balance and preserve the environment; it is related to cultural, social, environmental, political, economic and historical aspects that, all together, ...
Rodríguez Huerta, Edgar (Fecha de defensa: 2020-03-20)
This Ph.D. thesis analyzes the supply and demand of water in the Yucatan Peninsula, México (YP), from the societal metabolism of water perspective. On one hand, an estimation of water supply is made based on a monthly water ...
Giannakis, Stefanos (Fecha de defensa: 2014-10-29)
The present Thesis deals with the solar disinfection of synthetic secondary effluent under laboratory controlled conditions, focusing on the post-irradiation bacterial regrowth. The influence of various internal and external ...
Saporiti, Giovanna (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-02)
The research aims to define a theoretical model of a resilient neoecosystem analyzing the relationship between water and urban form. The hypothesis is to understand the characteristics of a resilient model for the evaluation ...
Affes Salah, Rim (Fecha de defensa: 2013-05-14)
Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process that transforms diverse categories of biomass feedstock to renewable energy, in the form of methane, and contributes to resources conservation and greenhouse gases emission ...
Ait Sidhoum, Amer (Fecha de defensa: 2018-12-04)
This thesis approaches the question of sustainability and firm performance. In the contemporary business model, firm performance measurement must take into account not only economic profits, but also environmental and ...
Sánchez Balvás, Lizeth Artemisa (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-15)
The social, environmental and economic side effects of the street lighting are the foremost concern for this thesis, since the expanding use of light at night, along with an inappropriate design, has led a large energy ...
Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Fecha de defensa: 2021-04-29)
Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing due to the current ...
Dogbe, Wisdom (Fecha de defensa: 2019-10-15)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability of health goals – ...
Oliveres Solé, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2021-02-02)
Fire regimes are changing under the influence of global change. On the European continent, landscape memory in the 21st century is dominated by an accumulation of forest fuel and irrupted by a progressive climatic forcing ...
Guesmi, Bouali (Fecha de defensa: 2014-01-23)
Firm-level productivity and efficiency analyses have important implications for the evaluation of their economic viability and sustainability. The assessment of a firm's performance requires the use of an adequate ...