Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 records, ...
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 based on a monthly water ...
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 that establishes that ...
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 how the introduction ...
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 more organized management ...
