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Marcillo Delgado, Juan Carlos (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Escobar González, Cristina (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-10)
The overall objective of this thesis is to explore the attitudes towards Catalan wines in Catalonia from a value chain approach. The first part of the thesis focuses on consumers' wine preferences in Catalonia. To tackle ...
Gilani, Golshid (Fecha de defensa: 2020-10-09)
Construction industry is known to cause major social, economic and environmental impacts on the society so that promoting sustainable construction practice affects positively and allows generating a balance among these ...
Moreno Barros, Ángela María (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-14)
The present research titled: “BIOCULTURAL MEMORY OF THE ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE OF WATER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. CASE STUDIES EMBERA-KATIOS Y ZENÚES (COLOMBIA) ”, has the general objective of documenting ...
Angerri Torredeflot, Xavier (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Blanco Romero, María Elena (Fecha de defensa: 2018-07-20)
The design of industrial equipment or product in a developed country is a process characterized by creativity and, at the same time, conditioned by the fulfillment of requirements imposed by the customer, users, market ...
López González, Alejandro (Fecha de defensa: 2018-12-20)
Currently, around 1.2 billion people remain without access to electricity in rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, rural electrification programs have been carried out mainly using conventional technologies ...
Sotres Fernández, Ana (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-24)
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system (BES) capable of converting the chemical energy contained in the chemical bonds of a substrate into electrical energy by means of electrochemical reactions catalyzed ...
Fonseca i Casas, Antoni (Fecha de defensa: 2017-02-27)
In the last years, international and national policies have been developed in order to encourage the improvement of energy efficiency. They have also been developed in order to reduce the environmental, economic and social ...
Scaini, Chiara (Fecha de defensa: 2015-03-18)
During April-May 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the larger breakdown of civil aviation after World War II. Although the eruption was weak in intensity, the dispersal of volcanic ash clouds ...
Borges Martins, Patricia Alexandra (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Illa Alibés, Josep (Fecha de defensa: 2012-11-23)
El procés de compostatge és complex degut a que hi intervenen simultàniamentfenòmens de naturalesa molt diversa que interactuen entre ells. La modelitzaciómatemàtica és una eina que facilita l’anàlisi d’aquests sistemes ...
Chaperón Cordero, Wilson (Fecha de defensa: 2015-06-17)
Intensive fish culture in floating cages is one of aquaculture activities that has grown fastest in recent years. However, this activity produces impacts ranging from alterations in the natural environment to social and ...
Londoño-Linares, Juan Pablo (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-03)
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this type of analysis requires ...
Gallón Londoño, Luciano (Fecha de defensa: 2012-02-07)
En 1950 vivían en Suramérica unos 113 millones de personas; en 2010, 393 millones, tres veces y media más. La mitad de ellos vive en la pobreza. En 2050, alrededor de 485 millones vivirán allí. Las figuras contemporáneas ...
Pires Carneiro, Alex (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-21)
Water is a limited resource essential for life. Human activities have been exercising considerable pressures on it. The unsustainable use and the need to improve the management of water are among the largest global concerns ...
Samsó Campà, Roger (Fecha de defensa: 2014-03-28)
Constructed Wetlands (CWs) are a wastewater treatment technology that inherits the purification potential of natural wetlands and optimizes it to comply with regulations for treated discharges. CWs have become an equally ...
Solimeno, Alessandro (Fecha de defensa: 2017-05-04)
Reactions and processes that occur in microalgae and bacteria systems are difficult to understand because most of them take place simultaneously and depend on many parameters such as temperature, solar radiation, nutrients ...
Franco Arias, Omar Orlando (Fecha de defensa: 2019-02-22)
This thesis aims to identify other alternatives to evaluate the Development Plans and Territorial Planning (PDOT), since traditionally the system of evaluation of the municipalities is only to measure if the objectives, ...
Salazar Llano, Lorena (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-09)
This thesis analyzes the complexity of the urban system, being described with multiple variables that represent the environmental, economic, and social characters of the city. The portrayal of the urban diversity and its ...