Institut Universitari de Recerca en Ciència i Tecnologies de la Sostenibilitat: Recent submissions
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Prospectiva energètica al Principat d'Andorra : model integrat d'avaluació de la seguretat energètica per a la transició cap a un escenari sostenibilista
The energy sector reform is one of the major challenges that must be faced globally during the current century. The energy model, in which the economic growth of major economies is sustained, based mainly on the intensive ...
Preferencias de los consumidores hacia el Omega 3 como reclamo de salud en los productos alimentarios
In this thesis we analyzed the preferences of consumers towards foods enriched with healthy components, in particular omega-3 (n-3). Beef and egg have been chosen as case studies. In the first case study, the preferences ...
Análisis y evaluación de la sostenibilidad en proyectos de vivienda de interés social en Latinoamérica
In view of the thousands of social interest housing projects being carried out in Latin America, the question arises of what these new spaces offer in terms of habitability, well-being and environmental responsibility. ...
Marketing Catalan wine from a value chain approach
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 Catalonia. To tackle ...
Farmers' preferences and the factors affecting their decision to improve maize crops in Mexico
Mexico is one of the countries with the highest corn production in the world (24.6 million tons) (FAOSTAT, 2016). However, in some regions, the yields are very low (2.0 Tn.ha-1) compared to the national average (9.39 ...
Numerical modelling of microalgae systems for wastewater treatment
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 radiation, nutrients ...
Proyectos territoriales antagónicos y anticooperación simbólica en las megainfraestructuras sudamericanas
The research "Antagonistic Territorial Projects and Symbolic Anticooperation in South American mega-infrastructures" aims to understand the confrontation of the various existing territorial projects in South America, as ...
Conocimiento y percepción ambiental sostenible en la arquitectura del desarrollo de la agroindustria : casos de estudio Argentina y Paraguay
To analyse the current situation of the Latin American subcontinent is to speak of a process of repression, as explained by Alberto Acosta when referring to the evil of abundance: countries rich in natural resources, whose ...
Model de simulació per l'optimització en l'edificació atenent la normativa de sostenibilitat (impactes ambientals, econòmics i socials)
In the last years, international and national policies have been developed in order to encourage the improvement of energy efficiency. They have also been developed in order to reduce the environmental, economic and social ...
Instrumentos de gestión integral de la red viaria y el patrimonio territorial desde la accesibilidad para un desarrollo local y turístico
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 to accomplish this ...
De la sostenibilidad hacia la resiliencia en las prácticas urbanísticas : La ciudad de Barcelona y el barrio de Vallcarca.
Con el objetivo de identificar factores y características que faciliten y promuevan la resiliencia social-ecológica en las ciudades, esta tesis doctoral sitúa, analiza, estructura, e interpreta las prácticas urbanísticas ...
Sopravvivere alla città : valutare il neoecosistema resiliente nella relazione tra l’acqua e la forma urbana
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 model for the evaluation ...
Detailed energy and comfort simulation of integral refurbishment of existing buildings in Catalonia
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 actions beyond the ...
Propuesta de un marco axiológico para la evaluación de un desarrollo tecnológico : el proyecto del tren de alta velocidad México-Querétaro
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 changes imply ...
Water service delivery solutions in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries : are public-public partnerships a valuable alternative to private sector participation?
This dissertation will focus on the analysis of water and sanitation service delivery solutions in the context of peri-urban and rural areas. In particular, it will investigate if public-public partnerships (PuPs) can ...
Active transformative pathways for local agri-food systems : drawing and applying an integrated framework to assess agri-food systems vulnerability under the political paradigm of food sovereignty in Ecuadorian Andes
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 to global change, ...
Modelización de problemas ambientales en entornos urbanos : deslizamientos de tierra en ciudades andinas
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this type of analysis requires ...
Anaerobic digestion and bioeletrochemical systems combination for energy and nitrogen recovery optimisation
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a widespread technology for treating high strength waste streams, such as livestock manure. AD has some limitations: i) high nutrient concentrations in effluents (especially nitrogen and ...
La "práctica aplicación" de la sostenibilidad ambiental en el ordenamiento territorial urbano : propuesta conceptual y metodológica para ciudades medias-intermedias de Colombia : El caso de Palmira, Tuluá y Buga, Colombia
Colombia is a rich country in ecologycal and social diversity which requires to sostenibility attend its local needs from real conditions that allow its easy and fast implementation actions in their favor. Theory, legislation, ...
Anticooperación Norte Sur : cuando la coherencia es más importante que la ayuda. El caso de Ecuador y la "cooperación" española
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 are distributed ...
