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 ...
Vargas, Mónica (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The research "Antagonistic Territorial Projects and Symbolic Anticooperation in South American mega-infrastructures" aims to understand the confrontation of the various existing territorial projects in ...
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 ...
Londoño-Linares, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this ...
Saporiti, Giovanna (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)
The research aims to define a theoretical model of a resilient neoecosystem analyzing the relationship between water and urban form. The hypothesis is to understand the characteristics of a resilient ...
Llistar, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
The thesis states that, as economies become more internationalized and as monetary and physical transnational flows increase, the negative externalities associated with these flows also rise. Externalities ...
Garza Rodríguez, Fabiola Rosamaría (Date of defense: 2016-11-26)
Culture is the engine of development in the city, hence its presence is increasingly used and justified in the urban planning and regeneration discourses. However, one special question arises: How does ...
Bernal-Pérez, Rolando Javier (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
Based on technology and science developments as a way of knowing the world, our way of life and the way we interact with the environment have been transformed, in the last two and a half centuries. These ...
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 ...
Vallejo-Rojas, Virginia (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)
Taking into account the limitations of official approaches for addressing agri-food research, as well as their associated policies to tackle the problems of hunger and vulnerability of agri-food systems ...