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 ...
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 ...
Scaini, Chiara (Date of defense: 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 ...
Pires Carneiro, Alex (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
Londoño-Linares, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
Rodríguez Huerta, Edgar (Date of defense: 2020-03-20)
This Ph.D. thesis analyzes the supply and demand of water in the Yucatan Peninsula, México (YP), from the societal metabolism of water perspective. On one hand, an estimation of water supply is made ...
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 ...