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Yangui, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2014-05-29)
The present dissertation aim a contributing to both agricultural economics and marketing literature by addressing specific issues related to discrete choice models and choice experiments. More precisely, this thesis focuses ...
Samsó Campà, Roger (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)
Constructed Wetlands (CWs) are a wastewater treatment technology that inherits the purification potential of natural wetlands and optimizes it to comply with regulations for treated discharges. CWs have become an equally ...
Rodríguez Abalde, Ángela (Date of defense: 2013-11-18)
The meat sector is one of the most important industrial sectors in Europe and it is associated with the generation of large quantities of animal by-products not intended for human consumption (ABPs). The increasing demand ...
Ávila Martín, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
Water of quality constitutes a scarce and essential resource for life and public health, and its sustainable management is of crucial importance. Thus, wastewater treatment, reuse and reclamation represent a key practice ...
Rincón Rodríguez, Angel Alberto (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
El incremento de la utilizaci on de la energ a solar como fuente de generaci on de energ a requiere de una adecuada estimaci on de la radiaci on solar global y directa incidente en la super cie terrestre. La estimaci on ...
Agredo Cardona, Gustavo Adolfo (Date of defense: 2013-07-17)
This doctoral research proposes a model of sustainable planning, based on territorial units called urban basins in cities (Manizales Case), in the middle mountains of Colombian Andean tropics. From the context of research ...
Bofill Abelló, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-06-05)
Es realitza una recerca aplicada en els camps de la mesura de la sostenibilitat d’un territori, i dels sistemes d’informació, estudiats com un sistema complex. D’una banda, s’analitzen les eines i els mètodes aplicats en ...
Avitia Rodríguez, Jessica Alejandra (Date of defense: 2012-07-04)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate Spanish consumers purchase motivations and behavior towards organic food by means of determining the key factors that take part on building their behavior. An important contribution ...
Antequera Baiget, Josep (Date of defense: 2012-12-12)
En esta tesis hemos elaborado una propuesta metodológica de análisis de la sostenibilidad regional utilizando la visión sistémica para su conceptualización, el paradigma de la sostenibilidad para su análisis, la metodología ...
Casañ Guerrero, Maria José (Date of defense: 2013-03-14)
L’educació va ser marcada a l’any 2000 per les Nacions Unides com un dels Objectius del Mil·lenni pel desenvolupament. Amb aquest objectiu, també conegut com “educació per a tothom”, es pretén que per l’any 2015, tots els ...
Yacoub López, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)
The water quality status of an Andean river basin was characterised and the pressures from anthropogenic activities were evaluated to enhance the available knowledge of the environment within an ecosystem in Peru. This ...
Affes Salah, Rim (Date of defense: 2013-05-14)
Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process that transforms diverse categories of biomass feedstock to renewable energy, in the form of methane, and contributes to resources conservation and greenhouse gases emission ...
Illa Alibés, Josep (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)
El procés de compostatge és complex degut a que hi intervenen simultàniamentfenòmens de naturalesa molt diversa que interactuen entre ells. La modelitzaciómatemàtica és una eina que facilita l’anàlisi d’aquests sistemes ...
Marras, Simone (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
In this thesis the finite and spectral element methods (FEM and SEM, respectively) applied to problems in atmospheric simulations are explored through the common thread of Variational Multiscale Stabilization (VMS). This ...
Salas Zapata, Walter Alfredo (Date of defense: 2012-07-17)
Public health policies are often influenced by social-ecological interactions that affect the achievement of policy goals and may produce early interruptions of actions. Paradigms, frameworks and models most commonly used ...
Hassouneh, Islam (Date of defense: 2012-02-29)
Los mercados mundiales agroalimentarios se han visto recientemente afectados por shocks importantes tales como crisis alimentarias y el estallido del mercado de los biocombustibles. La presente tesis contribuye de forma ...
Gallón Londoño, Luciano (Date of defense: 2012-02-07)
En 1950 vivían en Suramérica unos 113 millones de personas; en 2010, 393 millones, tres veces y media más. La mitad de ellos vive en la pobreza. En 2050, alrededor de 485 millones vivirán allí. Las figuras contemporáneas ...