In his thesis, Daniel Vera has studied the effect of Musaceae mixed-species plantations on improving the ecosystems degradation in Ecuador due to monocultures. He performed two comparative parallel studies at two sites in Ecuador, with...
A new ICTA-UAB project led by researcher Jordina Belmonte will study the effects of extreme meteorological events on the biological biodiversity present in the atmosphere in order to predict changes in the environment and possible affectations on...
Researchers from the Barcelona Laboratoy for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) from the ICTA-UAB, in partnership with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), will coordinate and...
Resistance against massive coal-mining in Australia and a growing movement for a ‘just transition’ from fossil fuels have enjoyed some success but face massive challenges, as shown in a new map developed by researchers from the...
Researchers from the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Institut (IBB) at UAB have discovered a new therapeutical aproximation to Parkinson’s disease, focused on the alpha-synuclein, a protein involved in this and other neurodegenerative disorders, which’s...
Marco Armiero, Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, participated in an...
Limits between big cities in developed countries and the rural land around them – the Peri-urban Agriculture (PUA) - are becoming blurred due to intensive ground urbanization. Researchers of the UAB Department of Geography have studied the...
Researchers at CREAF have compared the amounts of dust deposited through the wet and dry pathways in two regions of contrasted African influence: the Tenerife Island and the Montseny massif. Data show that elements from African dust were mostly delivered as wet deposition in Montseny,...
The wastewater treatment plant developed by the UAB and Aigües de Manresa S.A. municipal company, generates value-added products simultaneously to the debugging process. The system recovers 50% of the phosphorus, useful as a fertilizer, extracts materials to produce...
A scientific paper recently published in the journal Habitat International, co-authored by an ICTA-UAB researcher, suggests six prerequisites for a socially just urban green development socially just.
