Institut Universitari de Recerca en Ciència i Tecnologies de la Sostenibilitat: Recent submissions

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Development of a standardized tool to calculate carbon footprint in ports 

Azarkamand, Sahar (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)

An important goal to tackle environmental problems and foster sustainable development in the near future is to reduce the generation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different industrial sectors including ports. ...

Memoria biocultural del conocimiento ancestral del agua para la resiliencia comunitaria : casos de estudio Embera-Katios y Zenúes (Colombia) 

Moreno Barros, Ángela María (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)

The present research titled: “BIOCULTURAL MEMORY OF THE ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE OF WATER FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. CASE STUDIES EMBERA-KATIOS Y ZENÚES (COLOMBIA) ”, has the general objective of documenting ...

From low carbon buildings to sustainable cities : sustainability transitions in the built environment towards the UN Agenda 

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 faced by cities. ...

Análisis composicional de la segregación socioespacial en la ciudad de Guadalajara, México 

Cruz Sandoval, Marco Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)

In recent years, rapid population growth and the accelerated urbanization of cities as a result of different economic, political and social forces have been accentuating the unequal distribution of the different socio-economic ...

Sustainability of the agri-food system’s characterization with food sovereignty framework and the evaluation approach of the ajor threats 

Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)

Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing due to the current ...

Propuesta metodológica para la implantación del análisis de riesgo en las auditorías de eficiencia energética 

Carrés Gonzàlez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-02-23)

Energy audits have been, and are basically the study and analysis of energy flows in a building, process or system with the aim of knowing its behavior in order to find possibilities for energy improvement. It is primarily ...

Sustainability for energy-efficient lighting 

Sánchez Balvás, Lizeth Artemisa (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)

The social, environmental and economic side effects of the street lighting are the foremost concern for this thesis, since the expanding use of light at night, along with an inappropriate design, has led a large energy ...

WETWALL : an innovative design concept for the treatment of urban wastewaters 

Castellar da Cunha, Joana Amèrica (Date of defense: 2020-02-17)

The development of society has led to a global concern regarding the improvement of resources performance, especially water. The design of nature-based solutions (NBS) for the treatment and reuse of wastewaters, in accordance ...

Análisis de preferencias hacia las acciones de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático: perspectiva del agricultor en el noroeste de México 

Orduño Torres, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)

Climate change is the most recurrent natural process on a global scale and one of the greatest challenges of our times; due to the close relationship between society, productive activities and economic development. One of ...

The water-energy-food nexus to tackle climate change in Morocco 

Barbarà Mir, Laia (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)

The water, energy and food nexus is a theoretical approach to better understand and systematically examine the interactions between the natural environment and human activities, and to work towards a more organized management ...

MCDM approach for assessing the sustainability of buildings' facades 

Gilani, Golshid (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)

Construction industry is known to cause major social, economic and environmental impacts on the society so that promoting sustainable construction practice affects positively and allows generating a balance among these ...

Societal metabolism focused on water management : application of the MuSIASEM tool in Yucatán Península, México 

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 based on a monthly water ...

Building a decision : support methodolgy to define ecosystem services bundles and to analyze trade-offs in diverse landscapes : application to Ecuadorian ecosystems 

Delgado Medina, Fátima (Date of defense: 2020-02-07)

A key challenge of ecosystem management is determining how to manage multiple ecosystem services across landscapes. Enhancing provisioning ecosystem services (i.e., food, timber, etc.) might lead to tradeoffs between ...

Desarrollo de un kit de control y monitorización telemática de bajo coste para sistemas de energía solar térmica en multivivienda 

González Valero, Aitor (Date of defense: 2018-05-21)

Solar thermal technology for domestic water heating is already a mature technology competitive to other conventional energy based systems. This has motivated some countries, regions or local authorities worldwide (Spain, ...

Incidencias de las pymes industriales en la conservación del medio ambiente en territorios en vías de desarrollo : caso de la provincia del Guayas-Ecuador 

Yance Carvajal, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-12-31)

Small and medium-sized companies have an impact on the environment where they operate, in some cases the effects on the environment can be very important within local communities, causing a series of negative processes ...

Análisis y modelización de la evolución de patrones globales y regionales en los conflictos socio ambientales. Aplicación a la Amazonia Ecuatoriana 

Pita Merino, Lina (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)

This document constitutes a conceptual and empirical approach to the problem of Socio-Environmental Conflicts (SEC) in Ecuador through an evaluation of 51 cases, distributed throughout the Ecuadorian territory between 1977 ...

Bio-based flame retardant for sustainable building materials 

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 properties. However, ...

Assessing sustainability in cities : a complexity science approach to the concept of happiness for the urban environment 

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 transformed into an urban ...

Transdisciplinarity for sustainability in engineering education 

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 of how sustainability ...

Portraying urban diversity patterns through exploratory data analysis 

Salazar Llano, Lorena (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

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 ...