Institut Universitari de Recerca en Ciència i Tecnologies de la Sostenibilitat: Recent submissions
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Bio-based flame retardant for sustainable building materials
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 properties. However, ...
Assessing sustainability in cities : a complexity science approach to the concept of happiness for the urban environment
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 transformed into an urban ...
Transdisciplinarity for sustainability in engineering education
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 of how sustainability ...
Portraying urban diversity patterns through exploratory data analysis
This thesis analyzes the complexity of the urban system, being described with multiple variables that represent the environmental, economic, and social characters of the city. The portrayal of the urban diversity and its ...
The role of community-based tourism in sustainable rural development : case studies from Ecuador
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 climate and non-climate ...
La cultura como estrategia de regeneración urbana : diagnosis y análisis de caso del centro de Monterrey, México
Culture is the engine of development in the city, hence its presence is increasingly used and justified in the urban planning and regeneration discourses. However, one special question arises: How does cultural sustainability ...
Sustainable consumption: fiscal policies and household behaviour
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 – ...
Livelihood strategies and risk behavior of cacao producers in Ecuador : effects of national policies to support cacao farmers and specialty cacao landraces
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 ...
Metodología de evaluación de la sostenibilidad de proyectos de electrificación rural
Currently, around 1.2 billion people remain without access to electricity in rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, rural electrification programs have been carried out mainly using conventional technologies ...
Understanding food waste behaviours along the food supply chain-a mutilevel approach
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 ...
Planes de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial e Índice de Desarrollo Humano Sostenible : análisis de correlación : caso de los municipios de la Provincia del Guayas, Ecuador (2001-2016)
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, ...
Factors affecting the engagement of academics of engineering studies towards sustainable development
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 recognised as a ...
Sustainability and firm performance : evidence from corportate and farm level
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 environmental and ...
Prospects of distributed electricity generation and services based on small scale biomass systems in Ghana
Access to energy is crucial to human welfare; no residential, commercial or industrial activity can be conceived without energy supply. At the same time, current dependence on fossil fuels and their negative effects on ...
The appliance of the concept of sustainability in human resource management in the corporate sector in Germany
Decline of resources, increasing expectation of stakeholders and radical transparency imposed by new technologies urges multinational enterprises to define sustainability as an important driver, which affects Strategic and ...
Estudio de la mejora de la eficiencia energética de la ventilación en sistemas de climatización con el uso de recuperadores de calor
Energy recovery elements play a major role in the efficiency and sustainability of building ventilation systems. The use of a sensible or total energy recovery ventilator is a key decision for ventilation systems designers. ...
Consumos eléctricos de la ciudad de Loja -Ecuador- y la incidencia del parque eólico Villonaco
Urban energy systems are an essential part of cities, which require a reliable and abundant supply of electricity and other services (such as water, fuel for transportation or food). On the other hand, the double crisis ...
Soberania del conocimiento tradicional en la Amazonia colombiana : el pueblo andoke de Aduche
The traditional knowledge of our indigenous peoples has allowed them to balance and preserve the environment; it is related to cultural, social, environmental, political, economic and historical aspects that, all together, ...
Metodología de diseño de máquinas apropiadas para contextos de comunidades en desarrollo
The design of industrial equipment or product in a developed country is a process characterized by creativity and, at the same time, conditioned by the fulfillment of requirements imposed by the customer, users, market ...
Integrated assessment and sustainability frameworks : diagnosis, design and application of an adaptive tool
The present Ph.D. thesis aims to close a gap found in literature regarding the availability of a sustainability integrated assessment method to be carried at local level where generally, data and resources are restricted ...
