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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2024-04-16
05:25
8 p, 466.0 KB An energy transition without externalization? / Caballeros Finkelstein, Alejandro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Ramos Martín, Jesús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Madrid, Cristina (Madrid López) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
The extended abstract presents the first results of the estimation of externalization levels of Spain through its energy transition towards 2030. It represents a first step towards building the Calliope Spain model adapted from EuroCalliope. [...]
2023 - 10.4995/carma2023.2023.16496
5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics, (2023), p. 1-8  
2024-04-11
05:49
Circular Economy Principles in Urban Agri-Food Systems : Potentials and Implications for Environmental Sustainability / Rufí Salís, Martí (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Toboso-Chavero, Susana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Rieradevall, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Petit Boix, Anna (University of Freiburg. Chair of Societal Transition and Circular Economy) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Madrid, Cristina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Due to urban population growth during recent decades, the food supply chain has become one of the key material flows in the metabolism of cities. Urban agriculture (UA) can be an alternative for mitigating food supply impacts. [...]
Springer Cham, 2024 (Greening of Industry Networks Studies ; 12) - 10.1007/978-3-031-55036-2_10
A Systemic Transition to Circular Economy: Business and Technology Perspectives, 2024, p. 187-205  
2024-03-21
05:30
24 p, 16.2 MB Assimilating Sentinel-2 data in a modified vegetation photosynthesis and respiration model (VPRM) to improve the simulation of croplands CO2 fluxes in Europe / Bazzi, Hassan (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Ciais, Philippe (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Abbessi, Ezzeddine (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Makowski, David (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Santaren, Diego (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Ceschia, Eric (Université de Toulouse) ; Brut, Aurore (Université de Toulouse) ; Tallec, Tiphaine (Université de Toulouse) ; Buchmann, Nina (ETH Zurich) ; Maier, Regine (ETH Zurich) ; Acosta, Manuel (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) ; Loubet, Benjamin (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Buysse, Pauline (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Léonard, Joël (Université de Liège) ; Bornet, Frédéric (Université de Liège) ; Fayad, Ibrahim (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Lian, Jinghui (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Baghdadi, Nicolas (Université de Montpellier) ; Segura Barrero, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Brümmer, Christian (Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture) ; Schmidt, Marius (Jülich Research Centre) ; Heinesch, Bernard (BioDynE research axis) ; Mauder, Matthias (Technische Universität Dresden) ; Gruenwald, Thomas (Technische Universität Dresden)
In Europe, the heterogeneous features of crop systems with majority of small to medium sized agricultural holdings, and diversity of crop rotations, require high-resolution information to estimate cropland Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) and its two main components of Gross Ecosystem Exchange (GEE) and the Ecosystem Respiration (RECO). [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.jag.2024.103666
International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, Vol. 127 (March 2024) , art. 103666  
2024-03-01
15:16
16 p, 1.2 MB Predicting willingness to pay and implement different rooftop strategies to characterize social perception of climate change mitigation and adaptation / Untereiner, Erin (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Toboso-Chavero, Susana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Vázquez Fariñas, Ana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Servei d'Estadística Aplicada) ; Madrid, Cristina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
With the latest IPCC report, dramatic global climate action must be taken immediately to limit global warming to 1. 5 oC, or face more frequent and extreme weather events with catastrophic implications. [...]
2024 - 10.1088/2515-7620/ad1b65
Environmental research communications, Vol. 6 (January 2024) , art. 15004  
2024-03-01
14:16
14 p, 4.6 MB Displaying geographic variability of peri-urban agriculture environmental impacts in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona : A regionalized life cycle assessment / Mendoza Beltran, Angelica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Padró Caminal, Roc (Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona) ; La Rota-Aguilera, Maria José (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals) ; Marull, Joan (Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona) ; Eckelman, Matthew J. (Northeastern University) ; Cirera, Jacob (Àrea metropolitana de Barcelona) ; Giocoli, Annalisa (Àrea metropolitana de Barcelona) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Peri urban agriculture (peri-UA) can supply food locally and potentially more sustainably than far-away conventional agricultural systems. It can also introduce significant environmental impacts depending on the local biophysical conditions and resources required to implement it and, on the crops managing practices, which could vary widely among growers. [...]
2023 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159519
Science of the total environment, Vol. 858, Pt 1 (February 2023) , art. 159519  
2024-02-01
07:00
8 p, 1007.1 KB Can we talk? Disrupting science circles with narrative-led dialogs / Leipold, Sina (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) ; Luo, Anran (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) ; Simoens, Machteld (University of Basel) ; Helander, Hanna (University of Kassel) ; Petit Boix, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Sustainability scientists are increasingly expressing concerns about the lack of creativity and reflexivity, vital elements for driving sustainability transformations, in their profession. We argue that these concerns stem from established scientific practices of knowledge accumulation and interdisciplinary research, often neglecting the influence of group values and disciplinary paradigms. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103683
Environmental science & policy, Vol. 153 (March 2024) , art. 103683  
2024-01-11
05:40
12 p, 3.3 MB The many faces of heating transitions. Deeper understandings of future systems in Sweden and beyond / Martin, Nick (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Zinck thellufsen, Jakob (Aalborg Universitet) ; Chang, Miguel (Aalborg Universitet) ; Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Madrid, Cristina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Swedish buildings require additional heating inputs for many months each year, much of which comes from district heating systems fed by fuel combustion, electrical devices and recycled heat sources; localised heating is also generated within individual buildings. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.energy.2024.130264
Energy, Vol. 290 (March 2024) , art. 130264  
2024-01-10
06:06
13 p, 3.5 MB Measuring BVOC emissions released by tomato plants grown in a soilless integrated rooftop greenhouse / Stringari, Gaia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villanueva, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Appolloni, Elisa (Università di Bologna. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Alimentari) ; Orsini, Francesco (Università di Bologna. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Alimentari) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental) ; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Urban design is currently promoting the inclusion of plants in buildings. However, plants emit biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), which alone or in combination with other airborne molecules such as CO2, may result in a general increase in tropospheric pollution. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23854
Heliyon, Vol. 10, issue 1 (Jan. 2024) , art. e23854  
2023-11-09
05:41
9 p, 1.2 MB Revealing the management of municipal textile waste and citizen practices : The case of Catalonia / Morell-Delgado, Gemma (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Talens Peiró, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Toboso-Chavero, Susana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Although the number of studies assessing the textile sector is increasing, only a few focus on its waste management. This study aims to shed light on current textile waste disposal practices and account for their environmental impact. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168093
Science of the total environment, Vol. 907 (January 2024) , art. 168093  
2023-11-03
09:39
24 p, 10.1 MB Modelling the impacts of emission changes on O3 sensitivity, atmospheric oxidation capacity, and pollution transport over the Catalonia region / Badia, Alba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Vidal, Verònica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors i Sistemes Operatius) ; Ventura, Sergi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Curcoll Masanes, Roger (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques) ; Segura Barrero, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Villalba, Gara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Tropospheric ozone (O3) is an important surface pollutant in urban areas, and it has complex formation mechanisms that depend on the atmospheric chemistry and on meteorological factors. The severe reductions observed in anthropogenic emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic can further our understanding of the photochemical mechanisms leading to O3 formation and provide guidance for policies aimed at reducing air pollution. [...]
2023 - 10.5194/acp-23-10751-2023
Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Vol. 23, Issue 18 (September 2023) , p. 10751-10774