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Cortés Duarte, María Carolina (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (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 ...