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ICTA - Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is a multidisciplinary centre that promotes academic research and postgraduate education on environmental sciences. It aims to improve our understanding of global environmental change, and the nature and causes of environmental problems. In addition, it studies policies, strategies and technologies to foster a transition to a sustainable economic and societal model.

The ICTA-UAB addresses major global environmental and sustainability challenges related to anthropogenic climate and global change. Researchers at ICTA-UAB undertake advanced research in specific areas of environmental science, divided into three general areas, namely “Earth and life sciences”, “Social environmental sciences” and “Technology, environment and society”.

About the Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu ICTA-UAB is the only research centre in environmental sciences to be identified as a Unit of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), the highest institutional recognition of scientific research in Spain.

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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  
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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  
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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  
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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)  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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2024-06-08
10:41
10 p, 873.4 KB Decoding the 15-minute city debate : conspiracies, backlash, and dissent in planning for proximity / Marquet Sardà, Oriol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Anguelovski, Isabelle (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Nello-Deakin, Samuel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia) ; Honey-Rosés, Jordi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Science skeptics have spent years attacking climate science, but it has only been recently that post-COVID-19 conspiracy theorists have directed their attention to local city planning, with misinformation campaigns throwing vitriol at the idea of the 15-minute city and denouncing planning best practices as a global form of social engineering with hidden agendas to restrict private freedoms. [...]
2024 - 10.1080/01944363.2024.2346596
Journal of the American Planning Association, (June 2024)  
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2024-06-07
05:45
15 p, 7.2 MB Projections of the start of the airborne pollen season in Barcelona (NE Iberian Peninsula) over the 21st century / Alarcón Jordán, Marta, 1958- (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física) ; Casas Castillo, M. Carmen (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física) ; Rodríguez Solá, Raúl (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física) ; Periago, Cristina (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física) ; Belmonte, Jordina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals
The effects of global warming are numerous and recent studies reveal that they can affect the timing of pollination. Temperature is the meteorological variable that presents a clearer relationship with the start of the pollination season of most of the observed airborne pollen taxa. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173363
Science of the total environment, Vol. 937 (August 2024) , art. 173363  
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2024-06-04
05:49
18 p, 7.4 MB Did COVID-19 really change our lifestyles? Evidence from transport energy consumption in Europe / Patino-Artaza, Helena (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; King, Lewis Carl (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Savin, Ivan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered substantial societal shifts and reductions in energy consumption, influenced both by the virus itself and the governmental policies implemented to curb its spread. With the end of the pandemic, it is crucial to assess whether enduring behavioural changes have occurred as they may play a vital role in achieving Paris Agreement targets. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114204
Energy policy, Vol. 191 (August 2024) , art. 114204  
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The Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (41)
Environmental and Climate Economics (ECE) (77)
Integrated Assessment: Sociology, Technology and the Environment (IASTE) (63)
Integrated Earth System Dynamics Laboratory (IESD) (27)
Observatori de la Tordera (15)
Sustainability and Environmental Protection (Sostenipra) (121)
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