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    A meta-evaluation of sustainable land management Initiatives in Senegal 

    Lomeña-Gelis, Mònica (Date of defense: 2015-07-28)

    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. ...

    A resilience transition for sustainable urban development : a process design methodology to support participatory decision making 

    Tollin, Nicola (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)

    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, ...

    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 

    Vallejo-Rojas, Virginia (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)

    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, ...

    An assessment of the impacts of recent food market shocks on food prices using price transmission analysis 

    Hassouneh, Islam (Date of defense: 2012-02-29)

    Los mercados mundiales agroalimentarios se han visto recientemente afectados por shocks importantes tales como crisis alimentarias y el estallido del mercado de los biocombustibles. La presente tesis contribuye de forma ...

    An institutional approach to urban fragmentation : power and sustainability in un-recognized settlements of Mumbai 

    Michelutti, Enrico (Date of defense: 2014-01-10)

    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 ...

    Anaerobic digestion and bioeletrochemical systems combination for energy and nitrogen recovery optimisation 

    Cerrillo Moreno, Míriam (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)

    Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widespread technology for treating high strength waste streams, such as livestock manure. AD has some limitations: i) high nutrient concentrations in effluents (especially nitrogen and ...

    Anaerobic digestion of animal by-products : pre-treatments and co-digestion 

    Rodríguez Abalde, Ángela (Date of defense: 2013-11-18)

    The meat sector is one of the most important industrial sectors in Europe and it is associated with the generation of large quantities of animal by-products not intended for human consumption (ABPs). The increasing demand ...

    Análisis composicional de la segregación socioespacial en la ciudad de Guadalajara, México 

    Cruz Sandoval, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)

    In recent years, rapid population growth and the accelerated urbanization of cities as a result of different economic, political and social forces have been accentuating the unequal distribution of the different socio-economic ...

    Análisis de la gestión de los residuos municipales generados en un entorno metropolitano utilizando un enfoque multicriterio 

    Álvarez, Ma. Dolores (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)

    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 ...

    Análisis de preferencias hacia las acciones de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático: perspectiva del agricultor en el noroeste de México 

    Orduño Torres, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)

    Climate change is the most recurrent natural process on a global scale and one of the greatest challenges of our times; due to the close relationship between society, productive activities and economic development. One of ...

    Análisis y evaluación de la sostenibilidad en proyectos de vivienda de interés social en Latinoamérica 

    Acevedo Agudelo, Harlem (Date of defense: 2017-09-13)

    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. ...

    Análisis y modelización de la evolución de patrones globales y regionales en los conflictos socio ambientales. Aplicación a la Amazonia Ecuatoriana 

    Pita Merino, Lina (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)

    This document constitutes a conceptual and empirical approach to the problem of Socio-Environmental Conflicts (SEC) in Ecuador through an evaluation of 51 cases, distributed throughout the Ecuadorian territory between 1977 ...

    Animal welfare in Europe and Iran: policy perspective and society 

    Pejman, Niloofar (Date of defense: 2022-03-10)

    Intensive animal production systems are compromising current animal welfare standards. Societies' growing concerns regarding how animals are raised have resulted in continuous policy reforms and regulations that have banned ...

    Anticooperación Norte Sur : cuando la coherencia es más importante que la ayuda. El caso de Ecuador y la "cooperación" española 

    Llistar, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    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 ...

    The appliance of the concept of sustainability in human resource management in the corporate sector in Germany 

    Selvanathan, Tharshanan (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)

    Decline of resources, increasing expectation of stakeholders and radical transparency imposed by new technologies urges multinational enterprises to define sustainability as an important driver, which affects Strategic and ...

    Arraigo: estudios sobre el riesgo desde la resistencia y la crítica al reasentamiento de población en Bogotá 

    López Meneses, Duván Hernán (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)

    (English) The investigation of climate risks affecting the popular neighborhoods in the mountainous outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, has served as a case study and starting point to critically study the concept of risk and ...

    Assessing sustainability in cities : a complexity science approach to the concept of happiness for the urban environment 

    Papachristou, Ioanna Anna (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)

    Where we live affects all aspects of our life and thus our happiness. In recent years, and now for more than half of the Earth’s population, our place of residence or activity has been increasingly transformed into an urban ...

    Assessment of the societal impact of research and innovation in the agri-food sector 

    Chams, Nour (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)

    Research value, research relevance, research quality, and research impact have been widely tackled by various disciplines, such as health, engineering, management, and sustainability. How research and innovation are being ...

    Bio-based flame retardant for sustainable building materials 

    Yang, Yunxian (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)

    As new promising alternatives, novel bio-based materials are already developed to apply in construction sectors due to biodegradability, low toxicity, sustainability, renewability, and acceptable general properties. However, ...

    Building a decision : support methodolgy to define ecosystem services bundles and to analyze trade-offs in diverse landscapes : application to Ecuadorian ecosystems 

    Delgado Medina, Fátima (Date of defense: 2020-02-07)

    A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to tradeoffs between ...