ICTA - Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals

L’Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) és un centre multidisciplinar que promou la recerca acadèmica i els estudis de postgrau en ciències ambientals. El seu objectiu és millorar la comprensió del canvi ambiental global i la naturalesa i les causes dels problemes ambientals. Estudia les polítiques, estratègies i tecnologies per afavorir la transició a un model social i econòmic sostenible.

L’ICTA-UAB aborda els principals reptes ambientals i de sostenibilitat relacionats amb el canvi global i climàtic antropogènic. Els investigadors de l’ICTA-UAB desenvolupen recerca avançada en àrees especifiques de la ciència ambiental a partir de tres àrees generals: “Ciències de la Terra i la Vida”, “Ciències Socials i Ambientals” i “Tecnologia, medi ambient i societat”.

Unitat d’Excel.lència María de Maeztu L’ICTA-UAB és l’únic centre de recerca en ciències ambientals distingit com a Unitat d’Excel.lència pel Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) del Gobierno de España, el més destacat reconeixement en recerca científica a España.

Estadístiques d'ús Els més consultats
Darreres entrades:
2026-03-25
18:12
13 p, 2.4 MB Strengthening the seascape of global environmental assessments to support ocean sustainability / Jacquemont, Juliette (University of Washington) ; Brodie-Rudolph, Tanya (University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa) ; Cavaleri Gerhardinger, Leopoldo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Claudet, Joachim (PSL Université Paris) ; Pörtner, Hans Otto (Alfred Wegener Institute Foundation for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)) ; Gaill, Françoise (PSL Université Paris)
Ambitious evidence-based policies are urgently needed to redirect mankind's trajectory towards ocean sustainability. While global environmental assessments (GEAs) synthesizing ocean knowledge are multiplying, we must ensure that their processes and outputs are conducive to social legitimacy, scientific credibility, and meet decision-makers' needs. [...]
2025 - 10.1038/s44183-025-00108-7
npj Ocean Sustainability, Vol. 4 (March 2025) , art. 9  
2026-03-25
17:13
21 p, 2.6 MB (Mis)information diffusion and the financial market / Di Francesco, Tommaso (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ; Torren Peraire, Daniel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
This paper investigates the interplay between information diffusion in social networks and its impact on financial markets with an Agent-Based Model (ABM). Agents receive and exchange information about an observable stochastic component of the dividend process of a risky asset à la Grossman and Stiglitz (1980). [...]
2025 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107211
Journal of economic behavior & organization, Vol. 238 (October 2025) , art. 107211  
2026-03-27
19:12
22 p, 1.7 MB Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona : insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge / Zelli, Edoardo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Legatelois, Océane (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Calvet Mir, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Iniesta Arandia, Irene (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) ; Miñarro Villanueva, Sara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
The escalating human-driven pressures, such as coastal development, climate change, and overfishing, have led to habitat degradation and declines in marine resource abundance. These impacts pose significant threats to the livelihoods of coastal communities, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea. [...]
2025 - 10.5751/ES-16215-300240
Ecology and society, Vol. 30, Num. 2 (2025) , art. 40  
2026-03-24
17:12
17 p, 2.1 MB From grains to berries : causes and consequences of crop portfolio changes in four mountain agroecosystems in the Iberian Peninsula / Benyei, Petra (Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía) ; Aceituno Mata, Laura (Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid) ; Blanch-Ramirez, Joana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Franco, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Levy, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Perdomo-Molina, Antonio (Universidad de La Laguna) ; Calvet Mir, Laura (Institut Metròpoli)
In the face of ongoing crop homogenization, preserving crop diversity is crucial for maximizing ecological interactions and reducing the risk of total crop failure. This study focuses on remote European mountain agroecosystems, where significant crop diversity reservoirs still exist. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s10460-025-10726-z
Agriculture and human values, Vol. 42 (March 2025) , p. 1267-1283  
2026-03-24
16:12
16 p, 2.8 MB The operational municipal solid waste management policy focuses on identifying waste generation behavior across multiple levels in mega cities, a case study / Alimoradiyan, Hamed (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Hajinezhad, Ahmad (University of Tehran. Department of Renewable Energies and Environmental Engineering) ; Yousefi, Hossein (University of Tehran. Department of Renewable Energies and Environmental Engineering) ; Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
The results of an effort to create a thorough framework that efficiently arranges and combines quantitative data characterizing the performance of Urban Waste Management Systems (UWMS) across a range of scales and dimensions are presented in this study. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s43621-025-01685-w
Discover Sustainability, Vol. 6 (2025) , art. 750  
2026-03-23
21:12
12 p, 1.1 MB Practical and Ethical Issues in Big Data and Machine Learning Forecasts of Zambian Community Forestry Engagement / Pienkowski, Thomas (University of Kent. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology) ; Mills, Morena (Imperial College London. Centre for Environmental Policy) ; Clark, Matt (Imperial College London. Centre for Environmental Policy) ; Moombe, Kaala (The Center for International Forestry Research (Zambia)) ; Chilufya, Henry (Independent (Zambia)) ; Sfyridis, Alexandros (Imperial College London. Centre for Environmental Policy) ; Sze, Jocelyne Shimin (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Olsson, Erik (Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science. Conservation International (US)) ; Jørgensen, Andreas Christ Sølvsten (Imperial College London. Department of Mathematics)
Approaches integrating geospatial "big data" and machine learning will likely be increasingly used to predict conservation-related human behavior, such as patterns of local engagement, in socioecological systems. [...]
2026 - 10.1111/con4.70022
Conservation letters, Vol. 19, Num. 2 (March-April 2026) , art. e70022  
2026-03-23
18:14
18 p, 5.6 MB Where have all the farmers gone? Spatial-temporal transformations of peri-urban agriculture in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona / Langemeyer, Johannes (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciències de la Computació) ; Gervasi, Gabriele (Università degli Studi di Siena) ; Ventura, Sergi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Urban expansion exerts pressure on peri-urban agriculture, leading to the displacement of agricultural activities and a loss of local food provision and vital ecosystem services. This study examines the spatial-temporal transformations of peri-urban agriculture in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, a region that has experienced significant agricultural decline in recent decades. [...]
2026 - 10.5751/ES-16730-310135
Ecology and society, Vol. 31, Num. 1 (March 2026) , art. 35  
2026-03-24
17:12
1 p, 243.9 KB Corrigendum to "Unlearning through spirituality : Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability / Segura, Jesse (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Gerber, Julien-Francois (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; Sekulova, Filka Tsvetkova (Universitat de Barcelona)
The authors regret that the citation Dovchin, S. , 2024. Mining, multilingualism and marginalization in Inner Mongolia. J. Socioling. 28 (1), 45-63. is the incorrect citation, and it should be Dovchin, U. [...]
2026 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350
Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 177 (March 2026) , art. 104350  
2026-03-23
17:12
14 p, 10.3 MB Species-specific differential dissolution morphology of selected coccolithophore species : an experimental study / Langer, Gerald (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Probert, Ian (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Sorbonne University) ; Young, Jeremy R. (University College London) ; Ziveri, Patrizia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Coccolith dissolution in the water column is an important process in the marine carbon cycle. Identifying dissolution in water column samples has been difficult due to a lack of experimental reference datasets showing dissolution morphologies. [...]
2026 - 10.5194/bg-23-1795-2026
Biogeosciences, Vol. 23, Num. 5 (March 2026) , p. 1795-1808  
2026-03-20
16:12
15 p, 4.7 MB "Made in Germany"? : Labour, wages and carbon footprints of consumption and production of the motor vehicles industry / Pérez-Sánchez, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Aguilar-Hernandez, Glenn A. (Leiden University)
Production is fragmented in global production networks, and consumption relies on global markets. Their impacts and profits are unevenly distributed in the international division of labour. Such complexity and entanglement call for footprint approaches that capture these regional and sectoral distributions. [...]
2026 - 10.1016/j.spc.2026.02.011
Sustainable Production and Consumption, Vol. 65 (June 2026) , p. 16-30  
Enfocat a:
Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) (56)
Environmental and Climate Economics (ECE) (89)
Integrated Assessment: Sociology, Technology and the Environment (IASTE) (65)
Integrated Earth System Dynamics Laboratory (IESD) (27)
Observatori de la Tordera (15)
Sostenibilitat i Prevenció Ambiental (Sostenipra) (151)