Franco Arias, Omar Orlando (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
This thesis aims to identify other alternatives to evaluate the Development Plans and Territorial Planning (PDOT), since traditionally the system of evaluation of the municipalities is only to measure ...
Orduño Torres, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)
Climate change is the most recurrent natural process on a global scale and one of the greatest challenges of our times; due to the close relationship between society, productive activities and economic ...
Sánchez Toledano, Blanca Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)
Mexico is one of the countries with the highest corn production in the world (24.6 million tons) (FAOSTAT, 2016). However, in some regions, the yields are very low (2.0 Tn.ha-1) compared to the national ...
Scaini, Chiara (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
Gallón Londoño, Luciano (Date of defense: 2012-02-07)
En 1950 vivían en Suramérica unos 113 millones de personas; en 2010, 393 millones, tres veces y media más. La mitad de ellos vive en la pobreza. En 2050, alrededor de 485 millones vivirán allí. Las ...
Michelutti, Enrico (Date of defense: 2014-01-10)
Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation ...
Selvanathan, Tharshanan (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Decline of resources, increasing expectation of stakeholders and radical transparency imposed by new technologies urges multinational enterprises to define sustainability as an important driver, which ...
Acevedo Agudelo, Harlem (Date of defense: 2017-09-13)
In view of the thousands of social interest housing projects being carried out in Latin America, the question arises of what these new spaces offer in terms of habitability, well-being and environmental ...
Pires Carneiro, Alex (Date of defense: 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 ...
504 - Threats to the environment (24)
71 - Physical planning. Regional, town and country planning. Landscapes, parks, gardens (17)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (14)
332 - Regional economics. Territorial economics. Land economics. Housing economics. (13)