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    Impacte ambiental de la valorització d’un residu industrial aviari per a l’obtenció de materials compòsits 

    Molins Duran, Gemma (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)

    (English) Chicken meat production has increased in recent years and is expected to continue growing, which also increases the generation of waste from the poultry industry. Chicken feathers (PlP) are one of these wastes ...

    Incidencias de las pymes industriales en la conservación del medio ambiente en territorios en vías de desarrollo : caso de la provincia del Guayas-Ecuador 

    Yance Carvajal, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-12-31)

    Small and medium-sized companies have an impact on the environment where they operate, in some cases the effects on the environment can be very important within local communities, causing a series of negative processes ...

    Innovation of the process-equipment system in a context of sustainability 

    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 of products and ...

    Instrumentos de gestión integral de la red viaria y el patrimonio territorial desde la accesibilidad para un desarrollo local y turístico 

    Clavera Ibáñez, Glòria (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)

    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 ...

    Integració d'eines i mètodes de la mesura de la sostenibilitat d'un territori en un sistema d'informació 

    Bofill Abelló, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-06-05)

    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 ...

    Integrated assessment and sustainability frameworks : diagnosis, design and application of an adaptive tool 

    Calleros Islas, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)

    The present Ph.D. thesis aims to close a gap found in literature regarding the availability of a sustainability integrated assessment method to be carried at local level where generally, data and resources are restricted ...

    Integration of advanced off-line and on-line systems for the monitoring of surface and drinking water quality 

    López Roldán, Ramón (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)

    An optimal strategy for monitoring water quality should be based on a combination of different technologies depending on the particularities of the system being observed. The final solution will be a combination of laboratory ...

    L'experiència acadèmica i el benestar de l'estudiantat en situació de risc en estudis STEM 

    Baltà Salvador, Rosó (Date of defense: 2022-06-29)

    One of the main goals of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is to guarantee quality education for all students, especially the most vulnerable. Engineering studies are a key element in educating and training future ...

    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 

    Pinzón Botero, María Victoria (Date of defense: 2016-06-09)

    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 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 

    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 context of research ...

    La cultura como estrategia de regeneración urbana : diagnosis y análisis de caso del centro de Monterrey, México 

    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 cultural sustainability ...

    Las transiciones agroecológicas justas en los sistemas agroalimentarios: analizando el género y los conocimientos tradicionales 

    Ramírez Santos, Ana Gladys (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)

    (English) This doctoral research develops the issue of just agroecological transitions in the food system and develops two case studies in the Global North and Global South. Based on the framework developed to analyze ...

    Livelihood strategies and risk behavior of cacao producers in Ecuador : effects of national policies to support cacao farmers and specialty cacao landraces 

    Díaz-Montenegro, José (Date of defense: 2019-10-08)

    This thesis addresses the Ecuadorian cacao value chain through three interrelated chapters. Small producers linked to this chain face significant trade-offs between the two main available varieties for planting: the fine ...

    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 

    Horta Bernús, Ricard (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)

    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 ...

    Marco de referencia para la planificación y desarrollo continuo de la comunicación de riesgos y crisis frente a amenazas en Sudamérica 

    Marcillo Delgado, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-10-13)

    (English) Research on risk communication and crisis communication (RC&C) is a crucial aspect to foster population resilience in the face of major hazards, especially in developing economies where there are greater social ...

    Marketing Catalan wine from a value chain approach 

    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 Catalonia. To tackle ...

    MCDM approach for assessing the sustainability of buildings' facades 

    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 balance among these ...

    Memoria biocultural del conocimiento ancestral del agua para la resiliencia comunitaria : casos de estudio Embera-Katios y Zenúes (Colombia) 

    Moreno Barros, Ángela María (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)

    The present research titled: “BIOCULTURAL MEMORY OF THE ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE OF WATER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. CASE STUDIES EMBERA-KATIOS Y ZENÚES (COLOMBIA) ”, has the general objective of documenting ...

    Metodologia integral de perfilat ràpid intel·ligent i interpretable pel suport a la presa de decisions complexes (MIPRI2D). Aplicacions a sostenibilitat 

    Angerri Torredeflot, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-07-25)

    (English) Living in the era of big data and artificiall intelligence this thesis wants to contribute with a new methodology to support data-driven decisions rapidly after data collection, and a technological infrastructure ...

    Metodología de diseño de máquinas apropiadas para contextos de comunidades en desarrollo 

    Blanco Romero, María Elena (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)

    The design of industrial equipment or product in a developed country is a process characterized by creativity and, at the same time, conditioned by the fulfillment of requirements imposed by the customer, users, market ...