Programa de Doctorat en Sostenibilitat, Tecnologia i Humanisme: Recent submissions
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A meta-evaluation of sustainable land management Initiatives in Senegal
Evaluation is the systematic determination of the merit, worth and significance of a programme, initiative or intervention. As a young discipline, its empirical study is still limited, especially in Francophone Africa. ...
Complexitat tècnica i socioeconòmica del model energètic : una aproximació biomimètica a les xarxes intel·ligents de transmissió d'energia i informació "smartgrid"
This thesis is a interdisciplinary research in the field of sustainable energy systems with the falsifiable hypothesis "a necessary transition from a society highly dependent on oil to one based on the use of local resources ...
Eficiència energètica en edificis d'ús docent en la ciutat mediterrània. Cas a estudi, ciutat de Barcelona
Based on the experience gained during more than 10 years working on energy efficiency in public buildings of various uses, this thesis develops a methodology for intervention in school buildings. The aims were to define ...
Multi-criteria and participatory approach to socio-economic, environmental and institutional indicators for sustainable water use and management at river basin level
Water is a limited resource essential for life. Human activities have been exercising considerable pressures on it. The unsustainable use and the need to improve the management of water are among the largest global concerns ...
Using statistical copulas to measure dependence in the agrofood sector
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 how the introduction ...
Energy efficient ventilation strategies for surgery rooms
Surgery rooms are a space type with particularly stringent indoor environmental quality (IEQ) requirements, which translate into high energy use. Due to the unclear IEQ and infection control requirements for surgery rooms ...
Climate change impacts on winter tourism in the Pyrenees and adaptation strategies
Climate Change has become no longer a conjecture but an objective reality. The increase of the global average temperature, the seas level rise or the increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events are ...
Desafíos en la implementación de proyectos de cooperación en servicios de agua dentro del proceso de urbanización sostenible. Cuatro casos de estudio en África: Maputo (Mozambique), Idjwi (DR Congo), Wukro (Etiopía) y Mecufi (Mozambique)
Many NGOs have tried to implement cooperation projects in water services in Africa. A percentage of them has been successful when it comes to sustainability but a significant proportion has failed . Discovering and analyzing ...
Análisis de la gestión de los residuos municipales generados en un entorno metropolitano utilizando un enfoque multicriterio
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. Also, there is ...
Reclaimed water use pilot scale practices in the Catalonian region. Viability quantitative PCR for microbial water quality monitoring
Reclaimed water use is an essential element in the integrated water resources managment. The wastewater treatment and reuse are activities that increase the aquatic capital without depleting the natural resource, whose ...
Una propuesta metodológica para la modelación y prospección de la sostenibilidad de las cuencas hidrográficas en la Guayana Venezolana
The aim of the current research project is to design a methodological proposal for measuring and examining the sustainability of Venezuela's Guiana river basins. For this, it is proposed a hypothesis that establishes that ...
An institutional approach to urban fragmentation : power and sustainability in un-recognized settlements of Mumbai
Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation dynamics from different ...
Lleis d'escala i complexitat estructural de les infraestructures tecnològiques. Els sistemes biològics com a analogia pel disseny i optimització del transport i distribució de l'energia elèctrica
Within the paradigm of sustainability, this thesis aims to provide complementary views to the conventional engineering in order to put forward tools that facilitate, on the one hand the search of solutions to improve the ...
The productive efficiency in agriculture: recent methodological advances
Firm-level productivity and efficiency analyses have important implications for the evaluation of their economic viability and sustainability. The assessment of a firm's performance requires the use of an adequate ...
Consumer preference heterogeneity towards olive oil virgin extra : hypothetical and non-hypothetical choice experiments
The present dissertation aim a contributing to both agricultural economics and marketing literature by addressing specific issues related to discrete choice models and choice experiments. More precisely, this thesis focuses ...
La cuenca urbana como unidad territorial para la planificación del desarrollo sostenible en ciudades de media montaña del Trópico Andino. Propuesta de una metodología de planificación y diseño de la estructura construida, circulatoria, verde e hídrica en cuencas urbanas de ciudades de media montaña andina en Colombia: Caso Manizales
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 context of research ...
Integració d'eines i mètodes de la mesura de la sostenibilitat d'un territori en un sistema d'informació
Es realitza una recerca aplicada en els camps de la mesura de la sostenibilitat d’un territori, i dels sistemes d’informació, estudiats com un sistema complex. D’una banda, s’analitzen les eines i els mètodes aplicats en ...
Consumer preferences for organic food: behavior building-up, importance of pricing, information and sensory issues
The aim of this thesis is to investigate Spanish consumers purchase motivations and behavior towards organic food by means of determining the key factors that take part on building their behavior. An important contribution ...
Propuesta metodológica para el análisis de la sostenibilidad regional
En esta tesis hemos elaborado una propuesta metodológica de análisis de la sostenibilidad regional utilizando la visión sistémica para su conceptualización, el paradigma de la sostenibilidad para su análisis, la metodología ...
Extensió dels Learning Management Systems cap al m-learning des d'una perspectiva sostenible
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 l’any 2015, tots els ...
