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 ...
Díaz-Montenegro, José (Date of defense: 2019-10-08)
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 ...
Solimeno, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2017-05-04)
Reactions and processes that occur in microalgae and bacteria systems are difficult to understand because most of them take place simultaneously and depend on many parameters such as temperature, solar ...
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 ...
Chams, Nour (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Research value, research relevance, research quality, and research impact have been widely tackled by various disciplines, such as health, engineering, management, and sustainability. How research and ...
Yang, Yunxian (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
As new promising alternatives, novel bio-based materials are already developed to apply in construction sectors due to biodegradability, low toxicity, sustainability, renewability, and acceptable general ...
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 ...
Ortiz Ferrà, Joana Aina (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
The energy renovation of buildings is an essential action to achieve the European target of 20/20/20. However, the dynamics of the energy renovation are very slow and the development of urgent policy ...
Vallejo-Rojas, Virginia (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)
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 ...
Papachristou, Ioanna Anna (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Where we live affects all aspects of our life and thus our happiness. In recent years, and now for more than half of the Earth’s population, our place of residence or activity has been increasingly ...