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    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 ...

    WETWALL : an innovative design concept for the treatment of urban wastewaters 

    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 wastewaters, in accordance ...

    WTEA : Millores de la metodologia per al desenvolupament d’auditories energètiques 

    García-Almiñana, Daniel (Date of defense: 2015-09-01)

    This PhD thesis shows the results of 10 years of energy audits for buildings as a proposal for a methodological improvement in the energy audit process itself. The main findings are referred to the three key points of any ...