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A narrow contribution to quantification for a sustainable society: from interdisciplinary review and policy analysis to a new method for the assessment of climate neutrality
(English) Humanity faces in the XXI Century the challenge of transformation towards a sustainable society. The ecological crisis, in which climate change plays an important role, threatens to alter the natural cycles of ...
Análisis composicional de la segregación socioespacial en la ciudad de Guadalajara, México
In recent years, rapid population growth and the accelerated urbanization of cities as a result of different economic, political and social forces have been accentuating the unequal distribution of the different socio-economic ...
Análisis de la producción hidroeléctrica en base a las implicaciones en la sostenibilidad energética
(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, ...
Análisis de preferencias hacia las acciones de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático: perspectiva del agricultor en el noroeste de México
Climate change is the most recurrent natural process on a global scale and one of the greatest challenges of our times; due to the close relationship between society, productive activities and economic development. One of ...
Análisis y modelización de la evolución de patrones globales y regionales en los conflictos socio ambientales. Aplicación a la Amazonia Ecuatoriana
This document constitutes a conceptual and empirical approach to the problem of Socio-Environmental Conflicts (SEC) in Ecuador through an evaluation of 51 cases, distributed throughout the Ecuadorian territory between 1977 ...
Animal welfare in Europe and Iran: policy perspective and society
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 ...
Aporte a la construcción de comunidades sostenibles. Un modelo para analizar su sostenibilidad
(English) This thesis developed an understanding of what makes a community sustainable, its particular characteristics, the values it shares, its way of life and its interaction with natural systems. It categorized the ...
The appliance of the concept of sustainability in human resource management in the corporate sector in Germany
Decline of resources, increasing expectation of stakeholders and radical transparency imposed by new technologies urges multinational enterprises to define sustainability as an important driver, which affects Strategic and ...
Arraigo: estudios sobre el riesgo desde la resistencia y la crítica al reasentamiento de población en Bogotá
(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 ...
Assessing sustainability in cities : a complexity science approach to the concept of happiness for the urban environment
Where we live affects all aspects of our life and thus our happiness. In recent years, and now for more than half of the Earth’s population, our place of residence or activity has been increasingly transformed into an urban ...
Assessment of the societal impact of research and innovation in the agri-food sector
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 ...
Assessment of water ecosystem services and alternative scenarios to climate change and human impact in neotropical mountains
(English) Water ecosystem services (ESw) are related to aquatic ecosystems and to the interaction with water and land in different ecosystems such as forests, agricultural lands, riparian areas, wetlands and water bodies. ...
Bio-based flame retardant for sustainable building materials
As new promising alternatives, novel bio-based materials are already developed to apply in construction sectors due to biodegradability, low toxicity, sustainability, renewability, and acceptable general properties. However, ...
Building a decision : support methodolgy to define ecosystem services bundles and to analyze trade-offs in diverse landscapes : application to Ecuadorian ecosystems
A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to tradeoffs between ...
Caracterización y modelación del sistema agroalimentario sostenible en la comunidad de Ziparadó, Resguardo indígena Embera Dóbida de Tanela, municipio de Unguía, departamento del Chocó, Colombia.
(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, ...
Confounding factors-aware hierarchical deep learning for sustainable edge wildfire detection
(English) Wildfires present a significant threat to ecosystems, property, and human life, underscoring the need for accurate, adaptable, and efficient detection systems. This thesis introduces a novel approach to wildfire ...
Consumos eléctricos de la ciudad de Loja -Ecuador- y la incidencia del parque eólico Villonaco
Urban energy systems are an essential part of cities, which require a reliable and abundant supply of electricity and other services (such as water, fuel for transportation or food). On the other hand, the double crisis ...
Contextualización de la enseñanza de las matemáticas en las carreras tecnológicas
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 ...
Desarrollo de un kit de control y monitorización telemática de bajo coste para sistemas de energía solar térmica en multivivienda
Solar thermal technology for domestic water heating is already a mature technology competitive to other conventional energy based systems. This has motivated some countries, regions or local authorities worldwide (Spain, ...
Design for sustainability transitions: Taoist-inspired approaches for systemic sustainability transitions
(English) In recent years, sustainability transitions have emerged as a critical research focus within sustainability science. This doctoral research explores sustainability transitions through a Taoist-inspired lens, ...
