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Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Lazzarini, Boris (Fecha de defensa: 2019-01-14)
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a critical role in societies’ transition towards sustainable development (SD), as they educate future professionals and decision makers. Engineering is widely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Azarkamand, Sahar (Fecha de defensa: 2021-11-04)
An important goal to tackle environmental problems and foster sustainable development in the near future is to reduce the generation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different industrial sectors ...
Delgado Medina, Fátima (Fecha de defensa: 2020-02-07)
A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to ...
Pejman, Niloofar (Fecha de defensa: 2022-03-10)
Intensive animal production systems are compromising current animal welfare standards. Societies' growing concerns regarding how animals are raised have resulted in continuous policy reforms and regulations ...
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 ...
Díaz-Montenegro, José (Fecha de defensa: 2019-10-08)
This thesis addresses the Ecuadorian cacao value chain through three interrelated chapters. Small producers linked to this chain face significant trade-offs between the two main available varieties for ...