Browsing Programa de Doctorat en Sostenibilitat by Subject "504"

    Detailed energy and comfort simulation of integral refurbishment of existing buildings in Catalonia 

    Ortiz Ferrà, Joana Aina (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)

    The energy renovation of buildings is an essential action to achieve the European target of 20/20/20. However, the dynamics of the energy renovation are very slow and the development of urgent policy actions beyond the ...

    Prospects of distributed electricity generation and services based on small scale biomass systems in Ghana 

    Arranz Piera, Pol (Date of defense: 2018-12-03)

    Access to energy is crucial to human welfare; no residential, commercial or industrial activity can be conceived without energy supply. At the same time, current dependence on fossil fuels and their negative effects on ...

    Sustainability of the agri-food system’s characterization with food sovereignty framework and the evaluation approach of the ajor threats 

    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 ...

    Transdisciplinarity for sustainability in engineering education 

    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 ...

    Water service delivery solutions in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries : are public-public partnerships a valuable alternative to private sector participation? 

    Avolio, Ciro (Date of defense: 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 (PuPs) can ...