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    Sistema de pronóstico de radiación solar a corto plazo a partir de un modelo meteorológico y técnicas de post-proceso para España 

    Rincón Rodríguez, Angel Alberto (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)

    El incremento de la utilizaci on de la energ a solar como fuente de generaci on de energ a requiere de una adecuada estimaci on de la radiaci on solar global y directa incidente en la super cie terrestre. La estimaci on ...

    Soberania del conocimiento tradicional en la Amazonia colombiana : el pueblo andoke de Aduche 

    Estrada Añokazi, Lena Yanina (Date of defense: 2018-09-12)

    The traditional knowledge of our indigenous peoples has allowed them to balance and preserve the environment; it is related to cultural, social, environmental, political, economic and historical aspects that, all together, ...

    Societal metabolism focused on water management : application of the MuSIASEM tool in Yucatán Península, México 

    Rodríguez Huerta, Edgar (Date of defense: 2020-03-20)

    This Ph.D. thesis analyzes the supply and demand of water in the Yucatan Peninsula, México (YP), from the societal metabolism of water perspective. On one hand, an estimation of water supply is made based on a monthly water ...

    Solar disinfection of secondary effluent and the subsequent bacterial regrowth : considerations, limitations and environmental perspectives 

    Giannakis, Stefanos (Date of defense: 2014-10-29)

    The present Thesis deals with the solar disinfection of synthetic secondary effluent under laboratory controlled conditions, focusing on the post-irradiation bacterial regrowth. The influence of various internal and external ...

    Sopravvivere alla città : valutare il neoecosistema resiliente nella relazione tra l’acqua e la forma urbana 

    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 model for the evaluation ...

    Study of methods for the improvement of the anaerobic digestion of lipids and long chain fatty acids 

    Affes Salah, Rim (Date of defense: 2013-05-14)

    Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process that transforms diverse categories of biomass feedstock to renewable energy, in the form of methane, and contributes to resources conservation and greenhouse gases emission ...

    Sustainability and firm performance : evidence from corportate and farm level 

    Ait Sidhoum, Amer (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)

    This thesis approaches the question of sustainability and firm performance. In the contemporary business model, firm performance measurement must take into account not only economic profits, but also environmental and ...

    Sustainability for energy-efficient lighting 

    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 led a large energy ...

    Sustainability of the agri-food system’s characterization with food sovereignty framework and the evaluation approach of the ajor threats 

    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 due to the current ...

    Sustainable consumption: fiscal policies and household behaviour 

    Dogbe, Wisdom (Date of defense: 2019-10-15)

    The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability of health goals – ...

    The management of fire complexity at the edge of criticality 

    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 climatic forcing ...

    The productive efficiency in agriculture: recent methodological advances 

    Guesmi, Bouali (Date of defense: 2014-01-23)

    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 ...

    Transdisciplinarity for sustainability in engineering education 

    Tejedor Papell, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-11-21)

    This research aims to improve engineering education in sustainability (EESD) through transdisciplinarity (td) learning approaches. The research comprised 3 phases. The first consisted of the analysis of how sustainability ...

    Un enfoque holísitico para evaluar la Sostenibilidad de las Indicaciones Geográficas : una aplicación a las DOP de aceite en Cataluña 

    Guadarrama Fuentes, Omar Vicente (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)

    The importance of Geographical Indications (GI) has grown considerably in recent years as an opportunity for product differentiation for specific segments of the population. The continuous increase in the number of certified ...

    Una propuesta metodológica para la modelación y prospección de la sostenibilidad de las cuencas hidrográficas en la Guayana Venezolana 

    Paolini Ruiz, Jorge Iván (Date of defense: 2014-01-14)

    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 ...

    Understanding food waste behaviours along the food supply chain-a mutilevel approach 

    Diaz Ruiz, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)

    The visibility of the food waste volume along the food supply chain during the recent years has situated this topic in the policy and research agenda. Food waste entails environmental, ethical and economic impacts. There ...

    Using statistical copulas to measure dependence in the agrofood sector 

    Ahmed Nasreldin, Osama (Date of defense: 2015-01-26)

    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 ...

    Variational multiscale stabilization of finite and spectral elements for dry and moist atmospheric problems 

    Marras, Simone (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)

    In this thesis the finite and spectral element methods (FEM and SEM, respectively) applied to problems in atmospheric simulations are explored through the common thread of Variational Multiscale Stabilization (VMS). This ...

    Water service delivery solutions in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries : are public-public partnerships a valuable alternative to private sector participation? 

    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 (PuPs) can ...

    The water-energy-food nexus to tackle climate change in Morocco 

    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 more organized management ...