Thalia Turren

Thalia Turren
  • Doctor of Engineering
  • Full time professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey

Full time professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey

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Introduction
Thalia Turren currently works at the CEDES, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Thalia does research in Water Science, Environmental Science and Cartography. Their current project is about sanitation in Mexico.
Current institution
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Current position
  • Full time professor

Publications

Publications (12)
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This article introduces a Smart and Sustainable Societies (S³) framework, based on what is necessary to achieve the UN agenda by 2030. The proposed model is based on the integration of three smart strategies: (1) water provision that consists of the use of greywater and rainwater; (2) sanitation provision that comprises the nutrients recovery from...
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Globally, the numerous efforts exerted toward providing basic sanitation services to people have not been sufficient to achieve universal coverage. In developing countries worldwide, many policies, strategies, initiatives, and projects on basic sanitation have failed, despite important investments. Of the several reasons explaining the failure, it...
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Sanitation is fundamental to human development and well-being. For developing countries, such as Mexico, one of the greatest long-term challenges is to treat all the wastewater generated. Several projects have been implemented to achieve this goal, but, due to the idiosyncrasies of local people, they have failed. This study aims to analyze both, pr...
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A vulnerability assessment due to water scarcity and drought in the city of La Paz (BCS) is presented. Te community capitals framework (CFF) is used to estimate vulnerability as a system integrated by 7 sub-systems: human, social, political, fnancial, physical, natural and cultural, through a biophysical situation analysis, index calculation, and t...
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El objetivo principal es conocer las causas de la escasez de agua y de la sequía y sus efectos, para contribuir en el diseño de medidas y estrategias que ayuden a mejorar la capacidad adaptativa de la comunidad ante los efectos del cambio climático.
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El objetivo principal del estudio es conocer las causas de la escasez de agua y de la sequía y sus efectos, para contribuir en el diseño de medidas y estrategias que ayuden a mejorar la capacidad adaptativa de la comunidad ante los efectos del cambio climático. Ante la necesidad de estimar la actual vulnerabilidad de la ciudad, se planteó la creaci...
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Se presenta una propuesta de metodología para evaluar la vulnerabilidad de zonas a costeras a eventos climáticos extremos, desde un enfoque de manejo de cuencas.
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Participación de las mujeres y los jóvenes en la actividad ganadera en Santa Cruz, Turrialba. Informe de investigación elaborado dentro del curso MÉTODOS CUALITATIVOS PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN Y LA ACCIÓN PARTICIPATIVA
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Participación de las mujeres y los jóvenes en la actividad ganadera en Santa Cruz, Turrialba. Informe de investigación elaborado dentro del curso MÉTODOS CUALITATIVOS PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN Y LA ACCIÓN PARTICIPATIVA, minitrado por Isabel Gutiérrez y Nicole Sibelet.

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