Sandra Bautista

se encuentra una deficiencia en la comprensión de los factores que pueden potenciar o limitar las motivaciones de los estudiantes universitarios a tener hábitos que sean sostenibles, tomando como estudio de caso la Universidad Central. Al no tener claridad sobre los factores potenciadores o limitantes para la generación de hábitos sostenibles, se...

A road verge, also known as a roadside, is a strip of grass or vegetation, sometimes shrubs and trees, that forms a space on the public property located along a road or highway. They require regular maintenance, one of the most relevant reasons being the safety of road users, which implies for territory planners making decisions about the period of...

La promoción de agroecosistemas que proveen servicios ecosistémicos [SE] además de la producción de alimentos, está mediada por su nivel de aporte al bienestar de las comunidades, así como la capacidad de estas para fundamentarlos. Esta mediación se materializa cuando una comunidad gestiona su agroecosistema según la importancia o valor dada a los...

Introducción: el sector agroindustrial ha evolucionado debido a la necesidad de una producción diversificada, competitiva y con menores efectos negativos para el ambiente y las comunidades. Esto requiere que sus procesos se basen en la integración del conocimiento científico y tecnológico con los saberes y conocimientos locales. Objetivo: proponer...

Within the aim of supporting territories to create more sustainable systems, road infrastructure plays a paramount role, not only because road shoulders represent a non-negligible land area, including their own biodiversity, but also because this represents the interface with the territory's ecosystems. For this reason, future road management syste...

Global concern about electronic waste is growing due to the awareness of the consequences of inadequate management of this waste. The relationship between the accelerated development of telecommunications, globalization, economic growth, market conditions, environmental policies, the generation of electronic waste and the negative impact on the env...

Climate change, the loss of ecosystems, the increase of poverty, the rise of marginality within rural communities and the decrease of food security, are global concerns in need of urgent attention. In this regard, an important number of studies focus on studying the way agro-ecosystems may face such challenges, as they provide ecosystem services (E...

The issue of sustainability assessment of biodiesel production has increasingly gained importance due to the interest of governments in drawing up sovereignty strategies, to diversify their energy matrix and to determine the impact of biofuels production. In this context, this work proposes a system dynamics model to assess biodiesel production in...

Combustion of fossil fuels in the transport sector represents the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, governments are fostering diversification of energy sources by creating a set of governmental environmental policies and initiatives. In this context, biofuels are expected to represent a substantial part of source d...

Sustainability assessment of biodiesel production is a topic of increasing importance due to the interest of governments to define sovereignty strategies and diversification of their energy matrix, and to set up the impact of biofuels production. In this context, this work aims to propose a hierarchical structure of sustainability assessment that i...

Sustainability assessment of biodiesel production is a topic of increasing importance due to the interest of governments to stablish sovereignty strategies, diversify their energy matrix and set up the impact of biofuels production. In this context, this work proposes a system dynamic model to assess biodiesel production in a specific context, base...