L’IS.UPC és una unitat bàsica de la UPC que s’organitza com a institut per a la promoció i la realització de recerca en sostenibilitat.La missió de l’Institut és la generació de les eines tècniques i conceptuals necessàries per ajudar a transformar el nostre model productiu vers la sostenibilitat, i la col·laboració, en aquesta direcció, en la tasca de la UPC de suport científic i tècnic al progrés social, cultural i econòmic de la societat.
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Saez Ujaque, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)
(English) This research deepens in the knowledge of the processes and changing dynamics of cities from the perspective of their resilience. The thesis proposes as object the processes of regeneration and transformation of ...
Naranjo Silva, Héctor Sebastián (Date of defense: 2024-02-20)
(English) Technical, ecological, territorial, and cultural transformations at various levels and spaces of society where hydroelectric projects exist often involve conflicts, new knowledge regimes, different local practices, ...
González Valencia, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2024-01-24)
(English) This paper explores the interdependent relationship of cities, as an expression of the process of urbanization and human agglomeration, as well as of all their spatial, political, social, economic and environmental ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cortés Duarte, María Carolina (Date of defense: 2023-12-01)
(English) Environmental inequality metrics require complex analyses between social, economic and environmental variables at different scales. The current research develops metrics within this framework to determine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Borges Martins, Patricia Alexandra (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
(English) The building sector has nowadays become a key point for policies and strategies to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions. The significant and unprecedented urban expansion that occurred in recent years and ...
Botero Posada, Simón Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)
(English) Agro-food systems in indigenous communities, due to their characteristics of complexity and adaptability, must be studied from a multidimensional perspective. In this class of systems, economic, political, ...
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 ...
López Díaz, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
The teaching of Mathematics has been always a matter of great concern at all academic levels and more especially in technological degrees. Both the contents of mathematical subjects and the way they are taught, have been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Miranda Briones, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
Tree rings play a relevant role for the reconstruction of climatic variables on centuries or millennia-scale. In the presence of anthropogenic climate change, and in the absence of extensive meteorological records, ...
Gómez Hernández, Dorian Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
Energy access allows to improve population life quality, specifically in terms of food, education and health. Currently, 10% of the world population does not have electricity. 85% of this population is mainly concentrated ...
504 - Threats to the environment (24)
71 - Physical planning. Regional, town and country planning. Landscapes, parks, gardens (16)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (14)
332 - Regional economics. Territorial economics. Land economics. Housing economics. (13)