Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)
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 ...
Dogbe, Wisdom (Date of defense: 2019-10-15)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lazzarini, Boris (Date of defense: 2019-01-14)
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a critical role in societies’ transition towards sustainable development (SD), as they educate future professionals and decision makers. Engineering is widely ...
Escobar González, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
The overall objective of this thesis is to explore the attitudes towards Catalan wines in Catalonia from a value chain approach. The first part of the thesis focuses on consumers' wine preferences in ...
Diaz Ruiz, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
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 ...
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 ...
Rey Bolaños, María Antonieta (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)
The global environmental change affects rural communities in an unprecedented way and brings transformations in the livelihoods in rural households. Rural households have a growing vulnerability to ...
Castellar da Cunha, Joana Amèrica (Date of defense: 2020-02-17)
The development of society has led to a global concern regarding the improvement of resources performance, especially water. The design of nature-based solutions (NBS) for the treatment and reuse of ...