A narrow contribution to quantification for a sustainable society: from interdisciplinary review and policy analysis to a new method for the assessment of climate neutrality 

    Hereu Morales, Joan (Date of defense: 2024-09-10)

    (English) Humanity faces in the XXI Century the challenge of transformation towards a sustainable society. The ecological crisis, in which climate change plays an important role, threatens to alter the natural cycles of ...

    Análisis de la producción hidroeléctrica en base a las implicaciones en la sostenibilidad energética 

    Naranjo Silva, Héctor Sebastián (Date of defense: 2024-02-20)

    (English) Technical, ecological, territorial, and cultural transformations at various levels and spaces of society where hydroelectric projects exist often involve conflicts, new knowledge regimes, different local practices, ...

    Aporte a la construcción de comunidades sostenibles. Un modelo para analizar su sostenibilidad 

    Cañón Rodríguez, Dora (Date of defense: 2024-10-02)

    (English) This thesis developed an understanding of what makes a community sustainable, its particular characteristics, the values it shares, its way of life and its interaction with natural systems. It categorized the ...

    Arraigo: estudios sobre el riesgo desde la resistencia y la crítica al reasentamiento de población en Bogotá 

    López Meneses, Duván Hernán (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)

    (English) The investigation of climate risks affecting the popular neighborhoods in the mountainous outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, has served as a case study and starting point to critically study the concept of risk and ...

    Assessment of water ecosystem services and alternative scenarios to climate change and human impact in neotropical mountains 

    Ávila García, Daniela (Date of defense: 2021-01-22)

    (English) Water ecosystem services (ESw) are related to aquatic ecosystems and to the interaction with water and land in different ecosystems such as forests, agricultural lands, riparian areas, wetlands and water bodies. ...

    Design of bike networks adaptive to heterogeneous demands and the needs of social groups. Case study: bike mobility networks for the cities of Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador 

    Caicedo Mafla, María Angélica (Date of defense: 2024-06-13)

    (English) Bike’s recognition as a vital form of urban transportation underscores its capacity to enhance mobility, improve quality of life, and address several urban challenges such as air pollution, traffic congestion, ...

    Impacte ambiental de la valorització d’un residu industrial aviari per a l’obtenció de materials compòsits 

    Molins Duran, Gemma (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)

    (English) Chicken meat production has increased in recent years and is expected to continue growing, which also increases the generation of waste from the poultry industry. Chicken feathers (PlP) are one of these wastes ...

    Incorporación de la valoración de los servicios ecosistémicos en las políticas de sostenibilidad de entornos urbano-regionales: Medellín, Valle de Aburrá y la región central de Antioquia 

    González Valencia, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2024-01-24)

    (English) This paper explores the interdependent relationship of cities, as an expression of the process of urbanization and human agglomeration, as well as of all their spatial, political, social, economic and environmental ...

    Las transiciones agroecológicas justas en los sistemas agroalimentarios: analizando el género y los conocimientos tradicionales 

    Ramírez Santos, Ana Gladys (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)

    (English) This doctoral research develops the issue of just agroecological transitions in the food system and develops two case studies in the Global North and Global South. Based on the framework developed to analyze ...

    MCDM approach for sustainability assessment of high-rise residential buildings 

    Maleki, Bahareh (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)

    (English) The construction of high-rise buildings has become a necessity due to limited land availability, population growth, and the demand for urban development. However, the cultural background and diverse needs of ...

    Metodología para el mapeo de conductores de innovación en empresas, con base en mapas de innovación 

    Hidrobo Morales, Jacqueline Tatiana (Date of defense: 2024-10-28)

    (English) Globally, the generation of innovation enables better economic, social, and environmental development for countries. Innovation mapping is a tool for visualizing internal and external innovation perspectives in ...

    Nature-based solutions for waterfronts reconfigurations: Litoral Besòs, analysis of an urban sustainability transition in the Barcelona metropolitan area 

    Ramírez Agudelo, Nancy Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)

    (English) Cities need to respond urgently to societal challenges, such as urbanization, changes in climate, and risk management. These challenges require innovative solutions in urban systems developed with citizens to ...

    Relación entre estratificación socioeconómica y exposición al material particulado (PM10 y PM2.5) en el área urbana de Botogá (Colombia) 

    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 ...

    The management of fire complexity at the edge of criticality 

    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 ...