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 ...
Barbarà Mir, Laia (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
The water, energy and food nexus is a theoretical approach to better understand and systematically examine the interactions between the natural environment and human activities, and to work towards a ...
Castellar da Cunha, Joana Amèrica (Date of defense: 2020-02-17)
The development of society has led to a global concern regarding the improvement of resources performance, especially water. The design of nature-based solutions (NBS) for the treatment and reuse of ...
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 ...
Ridaura Aldana, Gregorio (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
In search to contribute to the current fight against climate change, the industrial sector is immersed in a transition to the Circular Economy (CE) to achieve resource efficiency through the redesign ...
Gilani, Golshid (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Construction industry is known to cause major social, economic and environmental impacts on the society so that promoting sustainable construction practice affects positively and allows generating a ...
Azarkamand, Sahar (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)
An important goal to tackle environmental problems and foster sustainable development in the near future is to reduce the generation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different industrial sectors ...
Sánchez Balvás, Lizeth Artemisa (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
The social, environmental and economic side effects of the street lighting are the foremost concern for this thesis, since the expanding use of light at night, along with an inappropriate design, has ...
Delgado Medina, Fátima (Date of defense: 2020-02-07)
A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to ...
Pejman, Niloofar (Date of defense: 2022-03-10)
Intensive animal production systems are compromising current animal welfare standards. Societies' growing concerns regarding how animals are raised have resulted in continuous policy reforms and regulations ...
332 - Regional economics. Territorial economics. Land economics. Housing economics. (3)
55 - Earth Sciences. Geological sciences (2)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (2)
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (2)