Programa de Doctorat en Sostenibilitat, Tecnologia i Humanisme: Enviaments recents
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Afrontar los asuntos globales : fundamentación teórica y propuesta metodológica para la creación de alianzas estratégicas entre organizaciones de la sociedad civil
This research aims to contribute to the integral management of Global Issues. Topics whose complexity and magnitude is so high that affect all humanity, they are long-term issues and cannot be solved by one sole nation. ...
Prospectiva energètica al Principat d'Andorra : model integrat d'avaluació de la seguretat energètica per a la transició cap a un escenari sostenibilista
The energy sector reform is one of the major challenges that must be faced globally during the current century. The energy model, in which the economic growth of major economies is sustained, based mainly on the intensive ...
Preferencias de los consumidores hacia el Omega 3 como reclamo de salud en los productos alimentarios
In this thesis we analyzed the preferences of consumers towards foods enriched with healthy components, in particular omega-3 (n-3). Beef and egg have been chosen as case studies. In the first case study, the preferences ...
Análisis y evaluación de la sostenibilidad en proyectos de vivienda de interés social en Latinoamérica
In view of the thousands of social interest housing projects being carried out in Latin America, the question arises of what these new spaces offer in terms of habitability, well-being and environmental responsibility. ...
Marketing Catalan wine from a value chain approach
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 Catalonia. To tackle ...
Proyectos territoriales antagónicos y anticooperación simbólica en las megainfraestructuras sudamericanas
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 South America, as ...
Conocimiento y percepción ambiental sostenible en la arquitectura del desarrollo de la agroindustria : casos de estudio Argentina y Paraguay
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 natural resources, whose ...
Model de simulació per l'optimització en l'edificació atenent la normativa de sostenibilitat (impactes ambientals, econòmics i socials)
In the last years, international and national policies have been developed in order to encourage the improvement of energy efficiency. They have also been developed in order to reduce the environmental, economic and social ...
Instrumentos de gestión integral de la red viaria y el patrimonio territorial desde la accesibilidad para un desarrollo local y turístico
The road network service for mobility should respond to the challenges of sustainability and the new way of understanding the territory from a systemic, historical and topological perspective. In order to accomplish this ...
De la sostenibilidad hacia la resiliencia en las prácticas urbanísticas : La ciudad de Barcelona y el barrio de Vallcarca.
Con el objetivo de identificar factores y características que faciliten y promuevan la resiliencia social-ecológica en las ciudades, esta tesis doctoral sitúa, analiza, estructura, e interpreta las prácticas urbanísticas ...
Sopravvivere alla città : valutare il neoecosistema resiliente nella relazione tra l’acqua e la forma urbana
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 model for the evaluation ...
Active transformative pathways for local agri-food systems : drawing and applying an integrated framework to assess agri-food systems vulnerability under the political paradigm of food sovereignty in Ecuadorian Andes
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 to global change, ...
Modelización de problemas ambientales en entornos urbanos : deslizamientos de tierra en ciudades andinas
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 type of analysis requires ...
La "práctica aplicación" de la sostenibilidad ambiental en el ordenamiento territorial urbano : propuesta conceptual y metodológica para ciudades medias-intermedias de Colombia : El caso de Palmira, Tuluá y Buga, Colombia
Colombia is a rich country in ecologycal and social diversity which requires to sostenibility attend its local needs from real conditions that allow its easy and fast implementation actions in their favor. Theory, legislation, ...
La ingeniería y el descarte artefactual de la desalación solar de agua : las industrias de Las Salinas, Sierra Gorda y Oficina Domeyko (1872-1907)
In the nineteenth century, at the Atacama Desert, a phenomenon of competition occurred between different industrial water desalination techniques, one of which had excellent results and a long life using solar energy. It ...
Can social capital help Indian smallholder farmers? Analysis of its impact on rural development, agricultural efficiency, production and risk
This research project intends to investigate empirically the potentials of Social Capital to act as a mechanism to improve the performance of India's small-holder agriculture. The study employs both a qualitative and ...
Teaching sustainability : living labs in architecture. A framework proposal for living lab eco-systems for teaching, research and innovation in the field of sustainable architecture and ESD in higher education. Specific case study : Living Lab LOW3 (UPC - BarcelonaTech)
Higher education, universities and especially schools of architecture, have an important role and a specific potential in societies' transition towards sustainable development (SD). New forms of teaching and learning, ...
Directrices energéticas integrales en edificios de oficinas transparentes (TOBEE)
The main objective of this Thesis is to determine the behaviour, the energetic and economic feasibility, and the comfort conditions in office buildings, specifically for solutions with high proportions of glazing on facades ...
Anticooperación Norte Sur : cuando la coherencia es más importante que la ayuda. El caso de Ecuador y la "cooperación" española
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 are distributed ...
A resilience transition for sustainable urban development : a process design methodology to support participatory decision making
Actualmente, más del 50% de la población mundial vive en áreas urbanas (75% en EU), y las ciudades concentran entre un 60-80% del consumo energético global y el mismo porcentaje de las emisiones de GEI CO2. Así mismo, ...
