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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 ...
Tejedor Papell, Gemma (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-21)
This research aims to improve engineering education in sustainability (EESD) through transdisciplinarity (td) learning approaches. The research comprised 3 phases. The first consisted of the analysis of how sustainability ...
Guadarrama Fuentes, Omar Vicente (Fecha de defensa: 2022-06-01)
The importance of Geographical Indications (GI) has grown considerably in recent years as an opportunity for product differentiation for specific segments of the population. The continuous increase in the number of certified ...
Paolini Ruiz, Jorge Iván (Fecha de defensa: 2014-01-14)
The aim of the current research project is to design a methodological proposal for measuring and examining the sustainability of Venezuela's Guiana river basins. For this, it is proposed a hypothesis that establishes that ...
Diaz Ruiz, Raquel (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-30)
The visibility of the food waste volume along the food supply chain during the recent years has situated this topic in the policy and research agenda. Food waste entails environmental, ethical and economic impacts. There ...
Ahmed Nasreldin, Osama (Fecha de defensa: 2015-01-26)
This thesis has been pursued in three papers whose nexus is the use of statistical copulas for the purpose of assessing dependence in the field of agrofood economics. The first paper aims at determining how the introduction ...
Marras, Simone (Fecha de defensa: 2012-12-10)
In this thesis the finite and spectral element methods (FEM and SEM, respectively) applied to problems in atmospheric simulations are explored through the common thread of Variational Multiscale Stabilization (VMS). This ...
Avolio, Ciro (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-18)
This dissertation will focus on the analysis of water and sanitation service delivery solutions in the context of peri-urban and rural areas. In particular, it will investigate if public-public partnerships (PuPs) can ...
Barbarà Mir, Laia (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-12)
The water, energy and food nexus is a theoretical approach to better understand and systematically examine the interactions between the natural environment and human activities, and to work towards a more organized management ...
Castellar da Cunha, Joana Amèrica (Fecha de defensa: 2020-02-17)
The development of society has led to a global concern regarding the improvement of resources performance, especially water. The design of nature-based solutions (NBS) for the treatment and reuse of wastewaters, in accordance ...
García-Almiñana, Daniel (Fecha de defensa: 2015-09-01)
This PhD thesis shows the results of 10 years of energy audits for buildings as a proposal for a methodological improvement in the energy audit process itself. The main findings are referred to the three key points of any ...