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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2024-07-18
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21 p, 382.0 KB Urbanizing degrowth : five steps towards a radical s-Spatial degrowth agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency / Kaika, Maria (University of Amsterdam) ; Varvarousis, Angelos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Demaria, Federico (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; March, Hug (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for 'operationalising' degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. [...]
2023 - 10.1177/00420980231162234
Urban Studies, Vol. 60, issue 7 (May 2023) , p. 1191-1211  
2024-07-18
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331 p, 5.7 MB Sketching out the contours / Harcourt, Wendy (University Rotterdam. International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus) ; Elmhirst, Rebbeca (University of Brighton) ; Kotsila, Panagiota (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Agostino, Ana (Universidad Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana) ; Gómez, Marlene (Freie Universität Berlin)
In this chapter, we set out the book's engagements with feminist political ecology (FPE) theory and practice. We first position the book in relation to FPE discussions underlying how the field is evolving as an open-ended set of discourses responding to the different crises and disruptions caused by the last years of environmental, climate, health, economic and political crises. [...]
2023 - 10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_1
Contours of feminist political ecology, 2023, p. 1-19  
2024-07-18
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20 p, 599.0 KB Assembling the Seabed : pan-European and interdisciplinary : advances in understanding Seabed mining / Cheng, Wenting (Norwegian Institute for Water Research) ; Peters, Kimberley (Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity) ; Amon, Diva (SpeSeas) ; Baker, Maria (University of Southampton. School of Ocean and Earth Sciences) ; Childs, John (Lancaster University. Lancaster Environment Centre) ; Conde, Marta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Gollner, Sabine (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) ; Magnussen, Kristin (Menon Economics (Oslo)) ; Mondré, Aletta (University of Kiel. Institute of Social Sciences. Department of Political Science) ; Navrud, Ståle (Norwegian University of Life Scienes. School of Economics and Business) ; Singh, Pradeep A. (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam)) ; Steinberg, Philip (Durham University. Department of Geography) ; Willaert, Klaas (Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology)
This chapter deploys assemblage theory and thinking to bring together a unique set of insights on the seabed ranging from the ecological, to legal, practice to theoretical. It does so with a particular aim in mind: to integrate debates pertinent to understanding the frontier space of the sea foor. [...]
2023 (MARE Publication Series ; 25) - 10.1007/978-3-031-20740-2_12
Ocean Govenance: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses, 2023, p. 275-294  
2024-07-18
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15 p, 1.4 MB Correspondence between local and scientific knowledge of climate change : the case of Hutsuls, Northern Romanian Carpathians / Mattalia, Giulia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Stryamets, Nataliya (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. School for Forest Management) ; Toscano Rivalta, Virginia (Università degli studi di Torino. Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi) ; Reyes-García, Victoria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Climate research heavily relies on the interpolation of data from instrumental recordings. However, the scarcity of meteorological data and the intrinsic heterogeneity of mountain areas complicate the prediction of local climate change impacts in these regions. [...]
2023 - 10.4324/9781003356837-4
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, 2023, p. 30-44  
2024-07-18
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14 p, 1.6 MB Self-defence against carbon footprint evidence : how employees of destination management and marketing organisations cope with conflicting environmental and economic data / Torres Delgado, Anna (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia) ; Font, Xavier (University of Surrey. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management) ; Oliver-Solà, Jordi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
We use motivational theories of self-defence to explain how employees of destination management and marketing organisations experience carbon footprint data as a threat. A three-stage study, with a total of 186 employees of destination management and marketing organisations, shows few instances of consonant evaluation of sustainability data that lead to conceptual or instrumental use of indicators. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.annals.2023.103722
Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 104 (January 2024) , art. 103722  
2024-07-18
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29 p, 746.1 KB Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability : Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona / Sekulova, Filka (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Bonilla, Fabricio (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) ; Laín, Bru (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia)
This work focuses on the implications of introducing a variation of a Basic Income for individuals in grim socio-economic conditions in Barcelona (Spain). We explore the happiness and socio-psychological imprint of living in material deprivation in a metropolitan city. [...]
2023 - 10.1007/s11482-023-10176-x
Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18, Issue 4 (August 2023) , p. 2035-2063  
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10 p, 1.4 MB Post-normal science in practice : Reflections from scientific experts working on the European agri-food policy nexus / Waylen, Kerry A. (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department) ; Blackstock, Kirsty L. (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department) ; Matthews, Keith B. (The James Hutton Institute. Information and Computational Sciences Department) ; Juarez-Bourke, Alba (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department) ; Hague, Alice (The James Hutton Institute. Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department) ; Wardell-Johnson, Dough H. (The James Hutton Institute. Information and Computational Sciences Department) ; Miller, Dave G. (The James Hutton Institute. Information and Computational Sciences Department) ; Kovacic, Zora (University of Bergen. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities) ; Völker, Thomas (University of Bergen. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities) ; Guimaraes Pereira, Angela (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission at Ispra) ; Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Post-Normal Science (PNS) emphasises the need for scientists and policy-makers to iteratively co-analyse and learn together, as part of an extended peer community. However, the roles and implications for scientific experts when interacting with policy-makers are not well understood. [...]
2023 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.01.007
Environmental science & policy, Vol. 141 (March 2023) , p. 158-167  
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6 p, 421.1 KB Reflections on the popularity of the circular bioeconomy concept : the ontological crisis of sustainability science / Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
I argue that the popularity of the circular bioeconomy concept in policy-making is symptomatic of a profound crisis in sustainability science, which is generated by the adoption of an obsolete scientific paradigm, i. [...]
2023 - 10.1007/s11625-022-01267-z
Sustainability Science, Vol. 18, Issue 2 (March 2023) , p. 749-754  
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26 p, 1.6 MB South American Archaeological Isotopic Database, a regional-scale multi-isotope data compendium for research / Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Mut, Patricia (Universidad de la República. Departamento de Antropología Biológica) ; Chávez, Juan (University of California. Department of Anthropology) ; Fossile, Thiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria) ; Colonese, Andre Carlo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Fernandes, Ricardo (Princeton University)
The South American Archaeological Isotopic Database (SAAID) is a comprehensive open-access resource that aggregates all available bioarchaeological stable and radiogenic isotope measurements, encompassing data from human individuals, animals, and plants across South America. [...]
2024 - 10.1038/s41597-024-03148-9
Scientific data, Vol. 11 (April 2024) , art. 336  
2024-07-16
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46 p, 645.0 KB Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism : navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons / Apostolopoulou, Evangelia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Bormpoudakis, Dimitris (University of Kent) ; Chatzipavlidis, Alexandros (University of Birmingham) ; Cortes-Vazquez, Jose Antonio (Universidade da Coruña) ; Florea, Ioana (University of Gothenburg) ; Gearey, Mary (University of Brighton) ; Levy, Julyan (Independent Scholar) ; Loginova, Julia (University of Queensland) ; Ordner, James (Humboldt State University) ; Partridge, Tristan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Pizarro, Alejandra (Cayetano Heredia Universidad de Peru) ; Rhoades, Hannibal (Gaia Foundation) ; Symons, Kate (University of Edinburgh) ; Veríssimo, Céline (Federal University of Latin American Integration) ; Wahby, Noura (American University in Cairo)
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. [...]
Dans cet article, nous utilisons des preuves empiriques provenant de douze études de cas dans neuf pays du Sud et du Nord, pour demander comment les innovations sociales radicales de la base qui font partie des mouvements et des luttes sociales peuvent offrir des voies pour s'attaquer aux inégalités socio-spatiales et socio-environnementales, et réinventer les biens communs. [...]
En este artículo, a través del estudio de 12 casos distintos de 9 países diferentes tanto del norte como del sur global, indagamos en cómo las innovaciones sociales, de base y radicales, que forman parte de distintos movimientos y disputas sociales nos ofrecen vías para hacer frente a las desigualdades socio-espaciales y socio-ambientales y para reinventar los comunes. [...]

2022 - 10.2458/JPE.2292
Journal of political ecology, Vol. 29, Issue 1 (2022) , p. 144-188  
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)