ICTA-UAB’s gets five ERC grants in two years

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) has been awarded five European Research Council (ERC) grants in two years, which is about ten per cent of all ERC grants arriving in Catalonia over the period from the end of 2015 to the end of 2017. 

 

In 2018 two new five-year ERC funded project will start at ICTA-UAB. Victoria Reyes García awarded a Consolidator Grant, will start her project  "Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts. The Contribution of Local Knowledge to Climate Change Research (LICCI)". Jeroen van den Bergh has been awarded an Advanced Grant and he will start in January his project “Behavioral-evolutionary analysis of climate policy: Bounded rationality, markets and social interactions” (EVOCLIM). 

 

They will join three other ERC projects at ICTA-UAB.  Joan Martinez Alier was awarded an Adanved Grant to analyse the Global Environmental Justice Movement through the EJAtlas in his project "Environmental Justice" (ENVJUSTICE) which started in June 2016. On the other hand, in 2016 Eric Galbraith obtained a Consolidator Grant to develop his research project “Biogeochemical and ecosystem interactions with socio-economic activity in the global ocean (BIGSEA)”. In mid-2016, Isabelle Anguelovski, who received a Starting Grant, started her project "Green Locally Unwanted Land Uses" (GREENLULUS) which aims to examine the role played by the restoration and creation of environmental amenities in the redistribution of urban quality of life. The project analyzes whether greening projects tend to increase environmental inequalities.