Essays about: "Cuenca Ecuador."
Found 4 essays containing the words Cuenca Ecuador..
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1. WRF-Chem vs machine learning approach to predict air quality in urban complex terrains: a comparative study
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/MikrodataanalysAbstract : Air pollution is the main environmental health issues that affects all the regions and causes millions premature deaths every year. In order to take any preventive measures, we need the ability to predict pollution level and air quality. This task is conventionally solved using deterministic models. READ MORE
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2. Barriers and drivers for sustainable mobility in Cuenca, Ecuador, Reflections towards sustainable mobility transitions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Acknowledging, the research gap within sustainability transitions in analysing the local scale of transition processes, this work primarily, seeks to contribute to sustainability transitions studies by identifying the main factors that are enabling and hindering the materialization of low carbon mobility in Cuenca, Ecuador. The use of a case study as a research strategy and the nature of the research objective required a qualitative approach, that consisted in the collection of qualitative data through semi-structured interviews and document review. READ MORE
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3. Urban Water : Harvesting Rainwater at household level to improve the current water metabolism in Cuenca – Ecuador
University essay from KTH/Industriell ekologiAbstract : With a global population about 7 billion people and their continued growth are pressuring global natural resources, in freshwater matter this pressure is altering both the river flows; timing season of water flows; and spatial patterns in order to meet human demands both in urban as rural areas. However, water stress in urban areas are increasing and expectations by 2050 are grim with a global urban development by 70 percent moreover urbanization rate expected by 2030 in Latin America is 80 percent, thus the water concerns because of high average water consumption 220 lpd, and water leakage by 29 percent in the third largest city of Ecuador Cuenca have motivated to perform this analysis. READ MORE
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4. Ecuadorian indigenous youth and identities : cultural homogenization or indigenous vindication?
University essay from Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : There exists a scholarly debate on the cultural impact of globalization and how and to what extent it is affecting indigenous people in particular. Three theoretical standpoints can be discerned from the debate; the homogenization-perspective which holds that globalization is making world cultures more similar, the hybridization-perspective which emphasizes that it is fragmenting cultural boundaries and the differentiation-perspective which implies that globalization is augmenting differences and making humanity as a whole more diverse. READ MORE
