Institut Universitari de Recerca en Ciència i Tecnologies de la Sostenibilitat: Recent submissions
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A resilience transition for sustainable urban development : a process design methodology to support participatory decision making
Actualmente, más del 50% de la población mundial vive en áreas urbanas (75% en EU), y las ciudades concentran entre un 60-80% del consumo energético global y el mismo porcentaje de las emisiones de GEI CO2. Así mismo, ...
WTEA : Millores de la metodologia per al desenvolupament d’auditories energètiques
This PhD thesis shows the results of 10 years of energy audits for buildings as a proposal for a methodological improvement in the energy audit process itself. The main findings are referred to the three key points of any ...
Microbial fuel cell running on high strength animal wastewater : nitrogen removal strategies and microbial community characterization
A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bioelectrochemical system (BES) capable of converting the chemical energy contained in the chemical bonds of a substrate into electrical energy by means of electrochemical reactions catalyzed ...
A meta-evaluation of sustainable land management Initiatives in Senegal
Evaluation is the systematic determination of the merit, worth and significance of a programme, initiative or intervention. As a young discipline, its empirical study is still limited, especially in Francophone Africa. ...
Complexitat tècnica i socioeconòmica del model energètic : una aproximació biomimètica a les xarxes intel·ligents de transmissió d'energia i informació "smartgrid"
This thesis is a interdisciplinary research in the field of sustainable energy systems with the falsifiable hypothesis "a necessary transition from a society highly dependent on oil to one based on the use of local resources ...
Integration of advanced off-line and on-line systems for the monitoring of surface and drinking water quality
An optimal strategy for monitoring water quality should be based on a combination of different technologies depending on the particularities of the system being observed. The final solution will be a combination of laboratory ...
Eficiència energètica en edificis d'ús docent en la ciutat mediterrània. Cas a estudi, ciutat de Barcelona
Based on the experience gained during more than 10 years working on energy efficiency in public buildings of various uses, this thesis develops a methodology for intervention in school buildings. The aims were to define ...
Modelización 3D de la dispersión de residuos generados en piscifactorías marinas
Intensive fish culture in floating cages is one of aquaculture activities that has grown fastest in recent years. However, this activity produces impacts ranging from alterations in the natural environment to social and ...
Multi-criteria and participatory approach to socio-economic, environmental and institutional indicators for sustainable water use and management at river basin level
Water is a limited resource essential for life. Human activities have been exercising considerable pressures on it. The unsustainable use and the need to improve the management of water are among the largest global concerns ...
Modeling strategies for volcanic ash dispersal and management of impacts on civil aviation
During April-May 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused the larger breakdown of civil aviation after World War II. Although the eruption was weak in intensity, the dispersal of volcanic ash clouds ...
Using statistical copulas to measure dependence in the agrofood sector
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 how the introduction ...
Climate change impacts on winter tourism in the Pyrenees and adaptation strategies
Climate Change has become no longer a conjecture but an objective reality. The increase of the global average temperature, the seas level rise or the increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events are ...
Solar disinfection of secondary effluent and the subsequent bacterial regrowth : considerations, limitations and environmental perspectives
The present Thesis deals with the solar disinfection of synthetic secondary effluent under laboratory controlled conditions, focusing on the post-irradiation bacterial regrowth. The influence of various internal and external ...
Desafíos en la implementación de proyectos de cooperación en servicios de agua dentro del proceso de urbanización sostenible. Cuatro casos de estudio en África: Maputo (Mozambique), Idjwi (DR Congo), Wukro (Etiopía) y Mecufi (Mozambique)
Many NGOs have tried to implement cooperation projects in water services in Africa. A percentage of them has been successful when it comes to sustainability but a significant proportion has failed . Discovering and analyzing ...
Análisis de la gestión de los residuos municipales generados en un entorno metropolitano utilizando un enfoque multicriterio
In Chapter 1 of the thesis the responsibilities of the main actors involved in the decision-making are identified, listed and described, stressing that there are many actors involved in the decision-making. Also, there is ...
Reclaimed water use pilot scale practices in the Catalonian region. Viability quantitative PCR for microbial water quality monitoring
Reclaimed water use is an essential element in the integrated water resources managment. The wastewater treatment and reuse are activities that increase the aquatic capital without depleting the natural resource, whose ...
Una propuesta metodológica para la modelación y prospección de la sostenibilidad de las cuencas hidrográficas en la Guayana Venezolana
The aim of the current research project is to design a methodological proposal for measuring and examining the sustainability of Venezuela's Guiana river basins. For this, it is proposed a hypothesis that establishes that ...
An institutional approach to urban fragmentation : power and sustainability in un-recognized settlements of Mumbai
Urban fragmentation is a phenomenon which characterizes the so-called "global city", both in the North and in the South of the world. Since the 1990s, several disciplines have approached fragmentation dynamics from different ...
Lleis d'escala i complexitat estructural de les infraestructures tecnològiques. Els sistemes biològics com a analogia pel disseny i optimització del transport i distribució de l'energia elèctrica
Within the paradigm of sustainability, this thesis aims to provide complementary views to the conventional engineering in order to put forward tools that facilitate, on the one hand the search of solutions to improve the ...
The productive efficiency in agriculture: recent methodological advances
Firm-level productivity and efficiency analyses have important implications for the evaluation of their economic viability and sustainability. The assessment of a firm's performance requires the use of an adequate ...
