A meta-evaluation of sustainable land management Initiatives in Senegal 

    Lomeña-Gelis, Mònica (Date of defense: 2015-07-28)

    Evaluation is the systematic determination of the merit, worth and significance of a programme, initiative or intervention. As a young discipline, its empirical study is still limited, especially in Francophone Africa. ...

    An institutional approach to urban fragmentation : power and sustainability in un-recognized settlements of Mumbai 

    Michelutti, Enrico (Date of defense: 2014-01-10)

    Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation dynamics from different ...

    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. 

    Botero Posada, Simón Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)

    (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, ...

    Consumos eléctricos de la ciudad de Loja -Ecuador- y la incidencia del parque eólico Villonaco 

    Ayala Chauvin, Manuel Ignacio (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)

    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 ...

    From low carbon buildings to sustainable cities : sustainability transitions in the built environment towards the UN Agenda 

    Penagos, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)

    This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently faced by cities. ...

    Incidencias de las pymes industriales en la conservación del medio ambiente en territorios en vías de desarrollo : caso de la provincia del Guayas-Ecuador 

    Yance Carvajal, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-12-31)

    Small and medium-sized companies have an impact on the environment where they operate, in some cases the effects on the environment can be very important within local communities, causing a series of negative processes ...

    Memoria biocultural del conocimiento ancestral del agua para la resiliencia comunitaria : casos de estudio Embera-Katios y Zenúes (Colombia) 

    Moreno Barros, Ángela María (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)

    The present research titled: “BIOCULTURAL MEMORY OF THE ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE OF WATER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. CASE STUDIES EMBERA-KATIOS Y ZENÚES (COLOMBIA) ”, has the general objective of documenting ...

    Metodología de evaluación de la sostenibilidad de proyectos de electrificación rural 

    López González, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)

    Currently, around 1.2 billion people remain without access to electricity in rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, rural electrification programs have been carried out mainly using conventional technologies ...

    Planes de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial e Índice de Desarrollo Humano Sostenible : análisis de correlación : caso de los municipios de la Provincia del Guayas, Ecuador (2001-2016) 

    Franco Arias, Omar Orlando (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)

    This thesis aims to identify other alternatives to evaluate the Development Plans and Territorial Planning (PDOT), since traditionally the system of evaluation of the municipalities is only to measure if the objectives, ...

    Societal metabolism focused on water management : application of the MuSIASEM tool in Yucatán Península, México 

    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 based on a monthly water ...

    Sustainability and firm performance : evidence from corportate and farm level 

    Ait Sidhoum, Amer (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)

    This thesis approaches the question of sustainability and firm performance. In the contemporary business model, firm performance measurement must take into account not only economic profits, but also environmental and ...

    Using statistical copulas to measure dependence in the agrofood sector 

    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 how the introduction ...

    The water-energy-food nexus to tackle climate change in Morocco 

    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 more organized management ...