Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Taking into account the limitations of official approaches for addressing agri-food research, as well as their associated policies to tackle the problems of hunger and vulnerability of agri-food systems to global change, ...
To analyse the current situation of the Latin American subcontinent is to speak of a process of repression, as explained by Alberto Acosta when referring to the evil of abundance: countries rich in natural resources, whose ...
Energy access allows to improve population life quality, specifically in terms of food, education and health. Currently, 10% of the world population does not have electricity. 85% of this population is mainly concentrated ...
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 ...
In search to contribute to the current fight against climate change, the industrial sector is immersed in a transition to the Circular Economy (CE) to achieve resource efficiency through the redesign of products and ...
The road network service for mobility should respond to the challenges of sustainability and the new way of understanding the territory from a systemic, historical and topological perspective. In order to accomplish this ...
This thesis addresses the Ecuadorian cacao value chain through three interrelated chapters. Small producers linked to this chain face significant trade-offs between the two main available varieties for planting: the fine ...
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, ...
Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing due to the current ...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability of health goals – ...
Firm-level productivity and efficiency analyses have important implications for the evaluation of their economic viability and sustainability. The assessment of a firm's performance requires the use of an adequate ...
The importance of Geographical Indications (GI) has grown considerably in recent years as an opportunity for product differentiation for specific segments of the population. The continuous increase in the number of certified ...
The visibility of the food waste volume along the food supply chain during the recent years has situated this topic in the policy and research agenda. Food waste entails environmental, ethical and economic impacts. There ...
This dissertation will focus on the analysis of water and sanitation service delivery solutions in the context of peri-urban and rural areas. In particular, it will investigate if public-public partnerships (PuPs) can ...
