Álvarez, Ma. Dolores (Date of defense: 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. ...
Penagos, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently ...
Gómez Hernández, Dorian Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
Energy access allows to improve population life quality, specifically in terms of food, education and health. Currently, 10% of the world population does not have electricity. 85% of this population is ...
Casañ Guerrero, Maria José (Date of defense: 2013-03-14)
L’educació va ser marcada a l’any 2000 per les Nacions Unides com un dels Objectius del Mil·lenni pel desenvolupament. Amb aquest objectiu, també conegut com “educació per a tothom”, es pretén que per ...
Chams, Nour (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Research value, research relevance, research quality, and research impact have been widely tackled by various disciplines, such as health, engineering, management, and sustainability. How research and ...
Yang, Yunxian (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
As new promising alternatives, novel bio-based materials are already developed to apply in construction sectors due to biodegradability, low toxicity, sustainability, renewability, and acceptable general ...
Cruz Sandoval, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
In recent years, rapid population growth and the accelerated urbanization of cities as a result of different economic, political and social forces have been accentuating the unequal distribution of the ...
Rodríguez Huerta, Edgar (Date of defense: 2020-03-20)
This Ph.D. thesis analyzes the supply and demand of water in the Yucatan Peninsula, México (YP), from the societal metabolism of water perspective. On one hand, an estimation of water supply is made ...
Ribé, Óscar (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Energy recovery elements play a major role in the efficiency and sustainability of building ventilation systems. The use of a sensible or total energy recovery ventilator is a key decision for ventilation ...
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 ...
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)