A study on indigenous hunter-gatherer populations located in Congo, Borneo and Bolivia has spotlighted the difference between ways of acquiring knowledge of schooled people and people who...
Specialists in oceanography and the study of climate change have studied fossil remains of planktonic foraminifera from the Gulf of Mexico with the aim of investigating temperature, salinity and oceanic productivity during...
A study onstorage systems of drinking water in 147 municipal deposits confirms that the material characteristics of these are the main contributors to their environmental impact, rather than transportation or the installation system. The storage capacity,...
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA) of UAB, in collaboration with the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bologna,...
Biodiesel isan alternative to fossil fuels which also has environmental benefits such as reducing emissions of certain pollutants. But, the fact that biodiesel mainly comes from edible oils for human consumption involves...
Researchers in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering are coordinating an EU LIFE Programme to explore the possibility of generating energy from the treatment of urban wastewater. This is the first project in this programme to...
In Western societies, each year a huge amount of waste is generated. For a long time, its regular destination has been landfill or incineration. The UAB Composting Research Group (GICOM) focuses on transforming organic waste into value-added products, such as compost, which can be used as an...
A team from the Ethnoecology laboratory hosted by ICTA at the UAB has done a study with a community of semi-nomadic herders from Gujarat (India) to determine how traditional ecological knowledge is transmitted. The main finding of the study is that...
A study has explored how 32 students of elementary education perceive Education for Sustainable Development. The results show which are the most important aspects in EDS as judged by future teachers, who barely appreciate...
Biodiversity conservation policies based on the use of economic incentives are spreading around the world, especially in developing countries, but there is a lack of studies on their effectiveness. This paper has evaluated the forest cover protected...
