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Diaz Ruiz, Raquel (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 ...