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Sustainability and Environmental Protection (Sostenipra)

The objectives of the Research group Sustainability and Environmental Protection (Sostenipra) are to develop and apply tools for the sustainability and environmental protection. These tools within the Industrial Ecology framework are Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), ecodesign, ecoefficiency, material and energy flow analysis applied to different scales such as a process or a product, regional, national or global. These tools are applied to prioritized sectors, such as services, biomass and agriculture, the chemical industry, waste management, urban systems, forest and natural landscape.
SostniPrA is made up of researchers and professors from (ICTA) Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals the department of Chemical Engineering of the UAB, IRTA Cabrils (Institut de Recerca en Tecnologia Agroalimentària) , and the spin-off company Inedit Innovació. The group also teaches in the masters program of Environmental Studies of the UAB , and the JEMES and the JEMES program, supervising both masters and doctoral thesis.

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2026-01-14
18:10
9 p, 2.9 MB A food system innovation : Vegetable production in rooftop greenhouses in Barcelona / Macall, Diego Maximiliano (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Villamayor Tomás, Sergio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Romero i Sànchez, David (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica)
As the world's population continues to urbanize, cities are uniquely positioned to lead a new wave of agricultural innovation by integrating the productive components of their food systems directly into their infrastructure. [...]
2026 - 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106698
Cities (Amsterdam), Vol. 171 (April 2026) , art. 106698  
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2026-01-13
20:10
15 p, 9.8 MB Adapting urban areas to rising temperatures : Strategies to reduce heat and vulnerability in a warming world / Ventura, Sergi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Miró, J. R. (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya. Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat) ; Camacho, David (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Casellas, Enric (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya. Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat) ; Segura Barrero, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Martilli, Alberto (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (Espanya)) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
The need for cities to prepare for the increasing frequency, persistence, and intensity of heat waves (HWs) makes modeling these events essential for evaluating the effectiveness of heat adaptation strategies. [...]
2026 - 10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102757
Urban climate, Vol. 65 (February 2026) , art. 102757  
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2025-10-22
17:32
11 p, 2.1 MB Cultivo de hortalizas en agricultura urbana. Invernaderos integrados en edificios / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals ; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Grup de Recerca i Innovació de la Construcció ; Fundació Miquel Agustí
La agricultura urbana está ganando protagonismo en la promoción de la sostenibilidad ambiental, la seguridad alimentaria y la cohesión social en las ciudades de todo el mundo. En un contexto donde más de la mitad de la población global ya vive en entornos urbanos, cultivar alimentos dentro de la ciudad representa una oportunidad para fortalecer los sistemas alimentarios locales y aumentar la resiliencia comunitaria. [...]
2025  
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2025-10-02
10:00
45 p, 34.2 MB 1st International Life Cycle Assessment Symposium. Towards Circular Water and Nutrient Management for Food Production : Abstract Book / Petit Boix, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Arcas Pilz, Verónica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Stringari, Gaia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
The Symposium was conceived as a venue to discuss how to effectively evaluate new forms of food production using LCA and whether they hold potential to reduce our impacts on the environment.
Bellaterra 2025  
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2025-09-03
04:10
7 p, 2.5 MB Urban circular economy initiatives : Development and application of a unified theoretical framework / Toboso-Chavero, Susana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; de Jong, Martin D. (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; Schraven, Daan (Delft University of Technology) ; Zisopoulos, Filippos K.
Existing assessments of Urban Circular Economy (UCE) initiatives often fail to address the multidimensional nature of urban circularity, particularly regarding social inclusion and stakeholder engagement. [...]
2025 - 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106371
Cities (Amsterdam), Vol. 167 (December 2025) , art. 106371  
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2025-07-29
04:46
28 p, 3.1 MB The Journey of a Discarded T-shirt : From the Global North to the Atacama Dumpsite / Morell Delgado, Gemma (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Toboso-Chavero, Susana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Textile waste management is an increasingly urgent issue due to textile mass production and consumption, which leads to significant waste generation. Strategies for managing textile waste prioritise reuse and recycling over incineration and landfilling. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s43615-025-00618-z
Circular Economy and Sustainability, (July 2025)  
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2025-07-23
05:18
6 p, 684.4 KB Making microelectronics research more sustainable : environmental assessment of an academic cleanroom / Zito Vanni, Guillermo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Petit Boix, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Quirion, David (Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona) ; Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Research facilities with a focus on microelectronics hold potential for supporting a cleaner digital transformation. Their stringent work conditions in cleanrooms, however, are barely studied from an environmental perspective other than their energy efficiency. [...]
2025 (32nd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE2025)) - 10.1016/j.procir.2025.01.080
Procedia CIRP, Vol. 135 (2025) , p. 906-911  
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2025-07-23
05:18
8 p, 702.0 KB Early steps for a measurable and impactful ecodesign process : the case of urea production / Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Petit Boix, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
As governments increasingly promote ecodesign through updated regulations, new products shall integrate this approach throughout the product development phase. This paper presents the steps performed to identify existing ecodesign criteria and product parameters to support ecodesign processes. [...]
2025 (32nd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE2025)) - 10.1016/j.procir.2024.12.117
Procedia CIRP, Vol. 135 (2025) , p. 1170-1177  
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2025-07-22
05:20
19 p, 4.5 MB Assessing the Intensity of Heatwaves in a Warming Climate at the Urban Scale : A Case Study of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona / Ventura, Sergi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Miró, Josep Ramon (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya. Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat) ; Segura Barrero, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Chen, Fei (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) ; Martilli, Alberto (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (Espanya)) ; Liu, Changhai (National Center for Atmospheric Research) ; Ikeda, Kyoko (National Center for Atmospheric Research) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Given that more than half of the world's population currently resides in cities, further understanding of the potential impact of future climate change on urban areas is needed. In this regard, we project recent heatwave (HW) episodes in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) with future climate conditions until 2100 using the pseudo global warming method. [...]
2025 - 10.1029/2025JD043559
Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres, Vol. 130, Issue 14 (July 2025) , art. e2025JD043559  
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2025-06-17
13:23
49 p, 3.5 MB Effect of land use changes on air quality : Impacts of urbanization, urban vegetation, and agriculture / Badia, Alba (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) ; Segura Barrero, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Ventura, Sergi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Guevara Vilardell, Marc 1986- (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) ; Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Urbanization transforms natural landscapes into impervious surfaces, altering local climate and air quality. Greening strategies are increasingly adopted to mitigate these effects, yet their efficacy depends on complex interactions among land use, urban form, geography, and climate. [...]
2025 - 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6757901/v1  
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