Landeros Suárez, Arturo (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
To analyse the current situation of the Latin American subcontinent is to speak of a process of repression, as explained by Alberto Acosta when referring to the evil of abundance: countries rich in ...
Agredo Cardona, Gustavo Adolfo (Date of defense: 2013-07-17)
This doctoral research proposes a model of sustainable planning, based on territorial units called urban basins in cities (Manizales Case), in the middle mountains of Colombian Andean tropics. From the ...
Dogbe, Wisdom (Date of defense: 2019-10-15)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability ...
Ahmed Nasreldin, Osama (Date of defense: 2015-01-26)
This thesis has been pursued in three papers whose nexus is the use of statistical copulas for the purpose of assessing dependence in the field of agrofood economics. The first paper aims at determining ...
Ait Sidhoum, Amer (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
This thesis approaches the question of sustainability and firm performance. In the contemporary business model, firm performance measurement must take into account not only economic profits, but also ...
González Valero, Aitor (Date of defense: 2018-05-21)
Solar thermal technology for domestic water heating is already a mature technology competitive to other conventional energy based systems. This has motivated some countries, regions or local authorities ...
Lazzarini, Boris (Date of defense: 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 ...
Escobar González, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
The overall objective of this thesis is to explore the attitudes towards Catalan wines in Catalonia from a value chain approach. The first part of the thesis focuses on consumers' wine preferences in ...
Ayala Chauvin, Manuel Ignacio (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
Urban energy systems are an essential part of cities, which require a reliable and abundant supply of electricity and other services (such as water, fuel for transportation or food). On the other hand, ...
Diaz Ruiz, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
The visibility of the food waste volume along the food supply chain during the recent years has situated this topic in the policy and research agenda. Food waste entails environmental, ethical and ...
504 - Threats to the environment (23)
71 - Physical planning. Regional, town and country planning. Landscapes, parks, gardens (13)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (12)
332 - Regional economics. Territorial economics. Land economics. Housing economics. (7)