Recent Submissions

Reuse of ICT devices as commons: a property rights governance model for collective access 

Roura Salietti, Mireya (Date of defense: 2025-10-09)

(English) Understanding the role of property rights in managing Information and Communication Technology devices, primarily computers, is fundamental to addressing resource waste and achieving digital inclusion and ...

Unravelling the complexity of food loss and waste: towards sustainable food systems 

Vidal Monés, Berta (Date of defense: 2024-11-29)

(English) Global food systems pose both threats and solutions for sustaining quality of life in our planet. Roughly 40% of the food meant for humans is lost or wasted globally, exacerbating systems unsustainability. Urgent ...

Confounding factors-aware hierarchical deep learning for sustainable edge wildfire detection 

El Madafri, Ismail (Date of defense: 2025-07-24)

(English) Wildfires present a significant threat to ecosystems, property, and human life, underscoring the need for accurate, adaptable, and efficient detection systems. This thesis introduces a novel approach to wildfire ...

From chaos to cohesion: urban antifragility model and post-crisis sustainable evolution strategies 

Uguet, Joseph (Date of defense: 2025-06-18)

(English) Urban crises reveal the true essence of our cities: their ability to collapse or, on the contrary, to sublimate themselves in adversity. Floods, economic shocks, pandemics — all tremors that expose every fragility ...

Metodología de articulación de actores públicos, privados, academia y ciudadanía como esquema de gobernanza del agua en cuencas hídricas urbanas latinoamericanas 

Restrepo Mesa, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2025-07-04)

(English) This research work, initiated in 2018, proposes a methodology for the articulation of public, private, academic and citizen actors as a water governance scheme in Latin American watersheds. It combines technical ...

Drivers of public participation in ecological restoration: evidence from Tunisia 

Missaoui, Sameh (Date of defense: 2025-07-14)

(English) The challenges facing the lagoon and aquifer ecosystems in North Africa highlight the critical need for sustainable restoration and management solutions. This thesis examines both the socio-economic and environmental ...

Multicriteria methodology for assessing the sustainability of last-mile electrification programs 

Leduchowicz Municio, Alba (Date of defense: 2025-05-21)

(English) The sustainability-driven global energy transition requires ensuring universal access to electricity, particularly in last-mile rural areas. Renewable-based energy access programs are pivotal for fostering ...

Integración de la relación salud humana y cambio climático en el marco de la resiliencia urbana: propuesta metodológica de evaluación y operacionalización en un contexto latinoamericano 

Agudelo Valderrama, Vanessa (Date of defense: 2025-02-28)

(English) This study addresses the relationship between climate change and human health in the framework of urban resilience in a Latin American context. It sought to strengthen the climate and health components through ...

Sustainability assessment of double-skin facades: improving thermal and visual comfort by applying parametric design panels on adaptive façade in refurbishment educational building at Mediterranean climate 

Yazdibahri, Seyedehsara (Date of defense: 2025-02-13)

(English) This dissertation investigates the role of Double-Skin Façades (DSFs) in promoting sustainable building practices, focusing on their influence on energy efficiency, thermal and visual comfort, and social dynamics, ...

A narrow contribution to quantification for a sustainable society: from interdisciplinary review and policy analysis to a new method for the assessment of climate neutrality 

Hereu Morales, Joan (Date of defense: 2024-09-10)

(English) Humanity faces in the XXI Century the challenge of transformation towards a sustainable society. The ecological crisis, in which climate change plays an important role, threatens to alter the natural cycles of ...

Design of bike networks adaptive to heterogeneous demands and the needs of social groups. Case study: bike mobility networks for the cities of Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador 

Caicedo Mafla, María Angélica (Date of defense: 2024-06-13)

(English) Bike’s recognition as a vital form of urban transportation underscores its capacity to enhance mobility, improve quality of life, and address several urban challenges such as air pollution, traffic congestion, ...

Aporte a la construcción de comunidades sostenibles. Un modelo para analizar su sostenibilidad 

Cañón Rodríguez, Dora (Date of defense: 2024-10-02)

(English) This thesis developed an understanding of what makes a community sustainable, its particular characteristics, the values it shares, its way of life and its interaction with natural systems. It categorized the ...

Metodología para el mapeo de conductores de innovación en empresas, con base en mapas de innovación 

Hidrobo Morales, Jacqueline Tatiana (Date of defense: 2024-10-28)

(English) Globally, the generation of innovation enables better economic, social, and environmental development for countries. Innovation mapping is a tool for visualizing internal and external innovation perspectives in ...

Assessment of water ecosystem services and alternative scenarios to climate change and human impact in neotropical mountains 

Ávila García, Daniela (Date of defense: 2021-01-22)

(English) Water ecosystem services (ESw) are related to aquatic ecosystems and to the interaction with water and land in different ecosystems such as forests, agricultural lands, riparian areas, wetlands and water bodies. ...

Experimental investigation of the influence of hydrodynamic cavitation on heat generation 

Bermejo Plana, David (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)

(English) The fresh water scarcity has become a concern for societies as a result of the scientific evidence about climate change and the intensive human activities. Thermal separation is one of the best available techniques ...

MCDM approach for sustainability assessment of high-rise residential buildings 

Maleki, Bahareh (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)

(English) The construction of high-rise buildings has become a necessity due to limited land availability, population growth, and the demand for urban development. However, the cultural background and diverse needs of ...

Nature-based solutions for waterfronts reconfigurations: Litoral Besòs, analysis of an urban sustainability transition in the Barcelona metropolitan area 

Ramírez Agudelo, Nancy Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)

(English) Cities need to respond urgently to societal challenges, such as urbanization, changes in climate, and risk management. These challenges require innovative solutions in urban systems developed with citizens to ...

Resiliencia y panarquía en los procesos de regeneración de la ciudad postindustrial. Una aproximación a las dinámicas urbanas a través del caso de Mataró (Barcelona) 

Saez Ujaque, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

(English) This research deepens in the knowledge of the processes and changing dynamics of cities from the perspective of their resilience. The thesis proposes as object the processes of regeneration and transformation of ...

Análisis de la producción hidroeléctrica en base a las implicaciones en la sostenibilidad energética 

Naranjo Silva, Héctor Sebastián (Date of defense: 2024-02-20)

(English) Technical, ecological, territorial, and cultural transformations at various levels and spaces of society where hydroelectric projects exist often involve conflicts, new knowledge regimes, different local practices, ...

Incorporación de la valoración de los servicios ecosistémicos en las políticas de sostenibilidad de entornos urbano-regionales: Medellín, Valle de Aburrá y la región central de Antioquia 

González Valencia, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2024-01-24)

(English) This paper explores the interdependent relationship of cities, as an expression of the process of urbanization and human agglomeration, as well as of all their spatial, political, social, economic and environmental ...