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.

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Darreres entrades:
2024-07-02
05:21
13 p, 5.0 MB Exploring ownership of change and health equity implications in neighborhood change processes : A community-led approach to enhancing just climate resilience in Everett, MA / Breton-Carbonneau, Andréanne (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Anguelovski, Isabelle (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; O'brien, Kathleen (Everett Community Growers) ; Echevarría-Ramos, Mariangelí (Mystic River Watershed Association) ; Fina, Nicole (Everett Community Growers) ; Genty, Josée (Everett Community Growers) ; Seeder, Andrew (Conservation Law Foundation) ; Binet, Andrew (University of British Columbia) ; Williams, Patrice C. (Northeastern University) ; Cole, Helen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Triguero-Mas, Margarita (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Traditional planning processes have perpetuated the exclusion of historically marginalized communities, imposing vulnerability to climate (health) crises. We investigate how ownership of change fosters equitable climate resilience and community well-being through participatory action research. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103294
Geographia Medica, Vol. 89 (September 2024) , art. 103294  
2024-06-27
06:21
18 p, 327.8 KB The constrained equal losses family of rules for claims problems / Giménez-Gómez, José Manuel (Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia) ; Salekpay, Foroogh (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Vilella, Cori (Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament de Gestió d'Empreses)
In this study, we introduce a family of rules for claims problems called the CEL-family. The family is defined by means of a parameter θ∈[0,1] as a notion of solidarity and contribution. It contains the constrained equal losses and the constrained equal awards rules. [...]
2024 - 10.1007/s11750-024-00677-9
Top (Berlin. Springer), (June 2024)  
2024-06-18
05:56
16 p, 2.4 MB Tracing culinary practices in the western provinces of the Roman Empire using Organic Residue Analysis / Baniou, Theoni (University of Rovira I Virgili) ; Suryanarayan, Akshyeta (University of Oxford) ; Livarda, Alexandra (University of Rovira I Virgili) ; Romaní Sala, Núria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Moraleda, Núria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villanueva, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Rodrigo Requena, Esther (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
This study aims at reconstructing foodways in the north-east (NE) of the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on lipid residue analysis of utilitarian vessels and using as case studies the sites of Puig Castellar of Biosca (180-120 BCE) and Guissona (120 BCE-third century CE). [...]
2024 - 10.1007/s12520-024-02011-7
Archaeological and anthropological sciences, Vol. 16 (June 2024) , art. 103  
2024-06-18
05:56
13 p, 937.3 KB Cultural keystone species as a tool for biocultural stewardship. A global review / Mattalia, Giulia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Mcalvay, Alex (New York Botanical Garden) ; Teixidor-Toneu, Irene (Aix Marseille University) ; Lukawiecki, Jessica (University of Guelph) ; Moola, Faisal (University of Guelph) ; Asfaw, Zemede (Addis Ababa University) ; Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo (University of Zurich) ; Díaz, Sandra (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) ; Franco, F. Merlin (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) ; Halpern, Benjamin S. (University of California) ; O'Hara, Casey (University of California) ; Renard, Delphine (University of Montpellier) ; Uprety, Yadav (Tribhuvan University) ; Wall, Jeffrey (University of Turku) ; Zafra-Calvo, Noelia (Basque Centre for Climate Change) ; Reyes-García, Victoria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)
1. The cultural keystone species (CKS) concept (i. e. 'species that shape in a major way the cultural identity of a people' as defined by Garibaldi and Turner in 2004) has been proposed as part of a common framing for the multiple entangled relationships between species and the socioecological systems in which they exist. [...]
2024 - 10.1002/pan3.10653
People and Nature, (June 2024), art. 10653  
2024-06-18
05:56
12 p, 3.8 MB The political price of superblocks : Electoral outcomes of sustainable transport interventions in Barcelona / Marquet Sardà, Oriol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Fernández Núñez, Marta Beatriz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia) ; Maciejewska, Monika Wiktoria (Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research)
Urban and transportation policies are increasingly recognized for their potential to mitigate climate change impacts and address transport externalities. Amidst efforts to shift modal preferences and reduce transport emissions, cities are turning to spatialbased policies, such as Superblocks, to reshape urban mobility. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108789
Environment International, Vol. 189 (July 2024) , art. 108789  
2024-06-17
10:15
13 p, 4.4 MB Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas : Insights from Padua, NE Italy / Souviney, Micol Masiero (University of Gastronomic Sciences) ; Mattalia, Giulia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Pieroni, Andrea (University of Gastronomic Sciences)
Western European societies, ecologies, and economies were significantly impacted by industrialization after WWII. Steadily increasing urbanization and the abandonment of traditional agricultural activities led to a rapid erosion of local environmental knowledge (LEK). [...]
2024 - 10.1007/s10745-024-00513-5
Human ecology (Dordrecht), (June 2024)  
2024-06-14
05:51
15 p, 17.6 MB How do young identify plants? Using the drawing method to explore early ethnobotanical knowledge in Madagascar / Porcher, Vincent (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Gallois, Sandrine (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Reyes-García, Victoria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Raketabakoly, Sitrakinaina Clara (Université d'Antananarivo) ; Alvarez-Fernandez, Santiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Carrière, Stéphanie M. (Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier)
In small-scale societies, people learn to identify plant species during childhood. Plant recognition is an important baseline knowledge, immediately useful to avoid intoxication risk due to wrong identification. [...]
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2024 - 10.1002/pan3.10651
People and Nature, (May 2024)  
2024-06-12
05:51
13 p, 4.8 MB Modeling air quality at urban scale in the city of Barcelona : A matter of green resolution / Vidal, Verònica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors i Sistemes Operatius) ; Cortés Fité, Ana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors i Sistemes Operatius) ; Badia, Alba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Improvement of the air quality in highly polluted cities is a challenge for today's society. Many of the strategies that have been proposed for this purpose promote the creation of green infrastructures. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102289
Journal of computational science, Vol. 79 (July 2024) , art. 102289  
2024-06-12
05:51
10 p, 3.1 MB Quantification and isotopic characterization of benzene polycarboxylic acids (BPCA)-derived black carbon in deep oceanic sediments : Towards assessing pyrogenic inputs from marine sources / Penalva Arias, Nuria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Teruel, Oriol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Raja, Maria (University of Nottingham) ; Rosell Melé, Antoni (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villanueva, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Methodologies based on benzene polycarboxylic acids (BPCA) selectively target the polymeric aromatic fraction of black carbon (BC) and are considered adequate to quantify pyrogenic inputs in environmental samples such as soils, lakes, and the marine dissolved organic carbon. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104811
Organic geochemistry, Vol. 193 (July 2024) , art. 104811  
2024-06-08
10:41
14 p, 1.5 MB Trade and decoupling of fossil fuel use embedded in EU consumption / Heydenreich, Till (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
The EU is frequently recognized as a frontrunner in tackling climate change; however, this assessment primarily relies on production-based evaluations, overlooking the significant role of imports. We conduct a detailed consumption-based analysis of how EU consumption drives global fossil fuel use, combining input-output with structural decomposition analysis and the subsystem approach. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142702
Journal of cleaner production, Vol. 464 (July 2024), art. 142702  
Enfocat a:
Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) (43)
Environmental and Climate Economics (ECE) (80)
Integrated Assessment: Sociology, Technology and the Environment (IASTE) (63)
Integrated Earth System Dynamics Laboratory (IESD) (27)
Observatori de la Tordera (15)
Sostenibilitat i Prevenció Ambiental (Sostenipra) (121)