Dimovska, Sara (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
(English) Unreinforced masonry buildings (URM), which prevail in many historic and urban centres, can be considered to be significantly vulnerable to seismic actions due to their peculiar constructive ...
Medina Mijangos, Rubí Alejandra (Date of defense: 2021-10-05)
Currently, there is a serious problem due to the large generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) due to the high consumption rates of the population and the short time of use of the products. Moreover, ...
Orúe-Echevarría Iglesias, Dorleta (Date of defense: 2019-11-04)
The Southwest Atlantic Ocean is a key component of the global climate system. It holds the Confluence of the Brazil and Malvinas Currents (BMC), one of the highest frontal systems of the world ocean. ...
Roigé Montornés, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This Doctoral Thesis addresses aspects of interest for hydraulic infrastructure managers, such as investment decision support tools, in order to provide both decision support and the justification tools ...
Marazuela Calvo, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)
This thesis aims to advance the knowledge of the hydrogeological functioning of salt flats in order to achieve a sustainable management of their mineral resources and ecosystems. Salt flats are a major ...
Jou Claus, Sonia (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Global change is expected to affect significantly the global hydrological behavior, changing mean annual precipitation patterns, increasing length of drought periods, rising evaporation and atmospheric ...
Pizarro Loaiza, Carlos Alexander (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)
Energy for cooking is the most essential energy service for peasants in countries with tropical climates such as Colombia where a large number of families can only access to firewood as energy source. ...
Silva Laya, Silvia Josefina (Date of defense: 2021-04-21)
(English) The Jarillo, Venezuelan Mirandina parish, has had an intense agricultural development since the end of the 19th century, the peach occupies one of its main crops since the middle of the last ...
Albo-Puigserver, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-18)
Mediterranean marine ecosystems are fundamentally driven by their pelagic communities and small and medium-size pelagic fishes (SMPF) play crucial ecological roles. Although fluctuations of the populations ...
Sau Valenzuela, Núria (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
(English) Deep geological disposal of heat-emitting and long-lived radioactive waste is the solution internationally accepted that offers the most viable and safest way to manage this kind of wastes. ...