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Yangui, Ahmed (Data de defensa: 2014-05-29)
The present dissertation aim a contributing to both agricultural economics and marketing literature by addressing specific issues related to discrete choice models and choice experiments. More precisely, this thesis focuses ...
Fittipaldi Gustavino, Mariana (Data 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 ...
Álvarez, Ma. Dolores (Data de defensa: 2014-06-25)
In Chapter 1 of the thesis the responsibilities of the main actors involved in the decision-making are identified, listed and described, stressing that there are many actors involved in the decision-making. Also, there is ...
Jiménez Redal, Rubén (Data de defensa: 2014-07-22)
Many NGOs have tried to implement cooperation projects in water services in Africa. A percentage of them has been successful when it comes to sustainability but a significant proportion has failed . Discovering and analyzing ...
Giannakis, Stefanos (Data 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 ...
Pons Pons, Marc (Data de defensa: 2014-11-07)
Climate Change has become no longer a conjecture but an objective reality. The increase of the global average temperature, the seas level rise or the increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events are ...
Ahmed Nasreldin, Osama (Data 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 ...
Scaini, Chiara (Data de defensa: 2015-03-18)
During April-May 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the larger breakdown of civil aviation after World War II. Although the eruption was weak in intensity, the dispersal of volcanic ash clouds ...
Chaperón Cordero, Wilson (Data de defensa: 2015-06-17)
Intensive fish culture in floating cages is one of aquaculture activities that has grown fastest in recent years. However, this activity produces impacts ranging from alterations in the natural environment to social and ...
López Roldán, Ramón (Data de defensa: 2015-07-10)
An optimal strategy for monitoring water quality should be based on a combination of different technologies depending on the particularities of the system being observed. The final solution will be a combination of laboratory ...
Salas Prat, Pep (Data de defensa: 2015-07-14)
This thesis is a interdisciplinary research in the field of sustainable energy systems with the falsifiable hypothesis "a necessary transition from a society highly dependent on oil to one based on the use of local resources ...
Bosch González, Montse (Data de defensa: 2015-07-16)
Based on the experience gained during more than 10 years working on energy efficiency in public buildings of various uses, this thesis develops a methodology for intervention in school buildings. The aims were to define ...
Pires Carneiro, Alex (Data de defensa: 2015-07-21)
Water is a limited resource essential for life. Human activities have been exercising considerable pressures on it. The unsustainable use and the need to improve the management of water are among the largest global concerns ...
Sotres Fernández, Ana (Data de defensa: 2015-07-24)
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system (BES) capable of converting the chemical energy contained in the chemical bonds of a substrate into electrical energy by means of electrochemical reactions catalyzed ...
Lomeña-Gelis, Mònica (Data de defensa: 2015-07-28)
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. ...
García-Almiñana, Daniel (Data 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 ...
Tollin, Nicola (Data de defensa: 2015-12-17)
Actualmente, más del 50% de la población mundial vive en áreas urbanas (75% en EU), y las ciudades concentran entre un 60-80% del consumo energético global y el mismo porcentaje de las emisiones de GEI CO2. Así mismo, ...
Llistar, David (Data de defensa: 2016-01-29)
The thesis states that, as economies become more internationalized and as monetary and physical transnational flows increase, the negative externalities associated with these flows also rise. Externalities are distributed ...
Vargas, Mónica (Data 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 ...
Londoño-Linares, Juan Pablo (Data de defensa: 2016-02-03)
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this type of analysis requires ...