Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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. ...
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 ...
(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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
