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Agua, actores sociales y servicios de los ecosistemas en la cuenca del río Muga. Una aproximación socioecológica
This doctoral thesis aims to identify and characterize the relationships between stakeholders and water resources through the sociocultural and spatial analysis of the water ecosystem services (WES) in the social-ecological ...
Canvis recents en el consum i la gestió de l'aigua en espais turístics. El cas de la Costa Brava (Girona)
Tourism has become one of the most important economic sectors in the Mediterranean coast. Despite the economic benefits generated by tourism at local and regional level, the environmental impacts related to water consumption ...
Catalan gastronomy in the province of Girona: a study of tourists’ awareness of gastronomy and the available gastronomic options in accommodations
Tourists are interested in getting to know the gastronomy of the destinations. Those tourists who visit the Costa Brava are confused with the knowledge of Catalan cuisine. Based on this observation, the web pages of ...
La conservación del patrimonio natural geológico en campos volcánicos, una herramienta para la gestión sostenible del territorio. El caso de la zona volcánica de la Garrotxa
The study of the geodiversity of an area and the conservation of its geological heritage, unlike biodiversity, has only recently begun to be systematized. This thesis analyses the conservation of geological heritage in ...
Construcción de la paz territorial y la paz ambiental en un contexto de cambio climático. Casos de estudio Antioquia y Guaviare
Colombia is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its geographical position and its economic dependence in the first sector. In 2016 the country created a historic opportunity to end the armed conflict and build ...
Diseño de una metodología de identificación y cartografía de unidades de paisaje a diferentes escalas. Aplicación al caso de Puerto Rico.
En este trabajo presentamos una jerarquía sistematizada de unidades de paisaje para el archipiélago de Puerto Rico, ubicado en la cuenca del Caribe. En este caso, aplicamos la metodología a dos escalas de análisis: a nivel ...
Eclipse chasing and sustainable tourism development. Case study: three solar eclipses in Spain in 2026/27/28
A total solar eclipse is one of the most spectacular nature’s shows and a significant motivation for many people to travel and see the totality as a once in a lifetime experience. Host communities within the path of totality ...
Elementos y herramientas de decisión para la conservación y manejo de paisajes altamente transformados. El caso del Bosque Modelo Risaralda (Risaralda, Colombia)
ENG- The Model Forests are a platform for action for sustainable landscapes, which was born in Canada and after the Rio de Janeiro Meeting expanded throughout the world. This platform, in Colombia, has existed in a single ...
Els sistemes dunars de la costa catalana. Evolució històrica, estat actual i potencial de restauració
Human developed coasts in Catalonia show a high-degraded dune landscape. Along the last decades, dunes have disappeared from 60% of the beaches studied, whereas 30% of dunes have been reduced in extension, and only 10% ...
Environmental governance from a gender perspective. Theoretical reflections and case studies
In the second half of the twentieth century we saw the environmental debate escalate into one of the most challenging and complex issues that authorities at international, national, regional and municipal levels have to ...
Explorant la jove pagesia: camins, pràctiques i actituds en el marc d'un nou paradigma agrosocial. Estudi comparatiu entre el sud-oest de la província d'Ontario i les comarques gironines
The research has explored the reality of generational renewal in agriculture in order to understand the entry process, the agricultural practices of young people and their attitudes toward a new agrosocial paradigm. The ...
Food tourism in rural areas: the case of cheese in Vall de Boí, a World Heritage Site
Food tourism is a type of tourism that over recent years has been achieving a greater interest by academics and tourism professionals, and evidently also as a tourist motivation. The framework of the thesis is based on ...
Fronteras y europeización del territorio: el papel de ciudades y regiones en la cooperación transfronteriza
he thesis aims to provide a new perspective for cross-border cooperation, as a key process in the construction of European territory. With cohesion policies, border areas become key to advancing community goals. And regions ...
Green citites and green urban economy; contributions from case studies for a necessary low-carbon future
City Governments engaged in climate change mitigation and adaptation face the multiple challenge of self-commitment, the need to involve their communities and stakeholders, and top-down and multi-scalar processes out of ...
Identificació, interpretació i valorització turística de les zones humides litorals del Baix Ter
The aim of the thesis is to analyse the relationships between mass tourism in Baix Ter and the coastal wetlands. The goal is to know if the wetlands are able to become tourism resources and, thus, to provide arguments for ...
Infraestructura verde y planeamiento: método basado en las contribuciones de la naturaleza a las personas. El caso de Cuenca-Ecuador
Although a globally recognized phenomenon, the growth of urban agglomerations presents particularities according to the local context. In Cuenca – Ecuador, expansive urban growth, especially during the twentieth century, ...
L'habitat alternatif en Catalogne, un modèle émergent?: la (re)naissance d'une "troisieme voie", entre pragmatisme et utopie
The research aims to analyze all current forms of alternative housing based on participation and cooperation in Catalonia, those formal initiatives with collective dimension which put the inhabitant at the center of the ...
La vulnerabilitat del comerç de la ciutat de Girona a les inundacions del riu Onyar
This paper analyzes the vulnerability of commercial establishments in the city of Girona to potential floods caused by the River Onyar. We identified all the shops located on the ground floor within the flood areas with ...
Les polítiques de paisatge a Europa en el marc del Conveni Europeu del Paisatge. Els casos d'Espanya, Alemanya i Eslovàquia
En aquesta tesi doctoral es pretén estudiar les diferents polítiques de paisatge a Europa, centrant-se en l’estudi a fons del Conveni Europeu del Paisatge, únic instrument dedicat exclusivament al paisatge. Mitjançant ...
Life cycle assessment of cities: the first steps for standardization
Cities are recognised as great generators of impacts and, consequently, seen as an opportunity for reducing them Worldwide. Cities are environmentally relevant because of two reasons. Firstly, because they are responsible, ...
