Pita Merino, Lina (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)
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 ...
Azarkamand, Sahar (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)
An important goal to tackle environmental problems and foster sustainable development in the near future is to reduce the generation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different industrial sectors ...
Delgado Medina, Fátima (Date of defense: 2020-02-07)
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 ...
Pejman, Niloofar (Date of defense: 2022-03-10)
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 ...
Saporiti, Giovanna (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)
The research aims to define a theoretical model of a resilient neoecosystem analyzing the relationship between water and urban form. The hypothesis is to understand the characteristics of a resilient ...
Clavera Ibáñez, Glòria (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
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 ...
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 ...
Llistar, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
The thesis states that, as economies become more internationalized and as monetary and physical transnational flows increase, the negative externalities associated with these flows also rise. Externalities ...
Tejedor Papell, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-11-21)
This research aims to improve engineering education in sustainability (EESD) through transdisciplinarity (td) learning approaches. The research comprised 3 phases. The first consisted of the analysis ...
Bernal-Pérez, Rolando Javier (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
Based on technology and science developments as a way of knowing the world, our way of life and the way we interact with the environment have been transformed, in the last two and a half centuries. These ...