Agua, actores sociales y servicios de los ecosistemas en la cuenca del río Muga. Una aproximación socioecológica 

    Garau, Enrica (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)

    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) 

    Gabarda Mallorquí, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)

    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 

    Forgas Serra, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-11-07)

    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 

    Planagumà, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    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 

    Franco Gantiva, Anna María (Date of defense: 2021-09-24)

    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. 

    Soto-Bayó, Sandra (Date of defense: 2016-06-28)

    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 ...

    Els sistemes dunars de la costa catalana. Evolució històrica, estat actual i potencial de restauració 

    Garcia-Lozano, Carla (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)

    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% ...

    Fronteras y europeización del territorio: el papel de ciudades y regiones en la cooperación transfronteriza 

    Martín Uceda, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-07-16)

    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 ...

    Identificació, interpretació i valorització turística de les zones humides litorals del Baix Ter 

    Pueyo-Ros, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)

    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 ...

    L'habitat alternatif en Catalogne, un modèle émergent?: la (re)naissance d'une "troisieme voie", entre pragmatisme et utopie 

    Pointelin, Richard (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

    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 

    Ribera Masgrau, Lluís (Date of defense: 2017-02-28)

    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 ...

    Miradas cruzadas sobre el paisaje de Túnez y Cartago, a través de textos de viajeros árabes y europeos (del siglo X al siglo XIX) 

    Laroui, Nawel (Date of defense: 2020-07-01)

    The cities of Tunis and Carthage belong to the same geographical area, although they have developed in two different eras. In a way, Tunis has been the heiress of Carthage. Due to its strategic situation in the central ...

    Paisatge i models urbans contemporanis. Les comarques gironines (1979-2006): del "desarrollismo" a la globalització 

    Valdunciel i Coll, Julio (Date of defense: 2011-06-14)

    This doctoral thesis offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the changes in the urban shape and landscape of the Girona Counties between 1979 and 2006. The theoretical part of the research lies within the framework ...

    Paisatges de frontera dels territoris de pas dels Pirineus: els casos de l’àrea central de l’Espai Català Transfronterer i l’àrea central de l’Eurociutat Basca 

    Pastor Saberi, Roser (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)

    Border landscapes often constitute geographical unities which have experimented distinct landscapes dynamics in each side of the border. This fact occurs because these border landscapes belong to different countries. The ...

    Percepción del cambio climático y medidas de ahorro de agua en alojamientos turísticos de la cuenca del río Muga (Girona, España) 

    Torres Bagur, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-09-25)

    This thesis analyses the perception of climate change and problems with water perceived by lodging industry. 33 in-depth interviews to owners or managers of hotels, campsites and rural lodgings of the Muga river basin have ...

    Transformacions territorials, canvi climàtic i risc d'inundació a la conca de la riera d'Argentona (1956-2050) 

    Bassa i Vila, Oriol (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)

    The application of the different parameters of the territorial transformations according to the determining factors for each one of the study periods through the Geographic Information Systems and the subsequent calculation ...