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👀 Visual stories of🔝 research on #sustainability + #climatechange from @uabbarcelona’s Institute of Environmental Science and Technology
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🌊Los sedimentos del Mar Menor no son solo un depósito. Son parte activa del problema.⁠ ⁠ Un nuevo estudio liderado por Julia Rodríguez-Puig (ICTA-UAB) y supervisado por Valentí Rodellas muestra que más del 90% de los nutrientes que degradan la laguna salen de ahí: agua que se filtra, recoge décadas de contaminación agrícola y minera, y vuelve a subir alimentando los mismos blooms que ayudó a crear.⁠ ⁠ Sin estrategias de restauración que contemplan esta vía, el Mar Menor puede seguir siendo vulnerable a la eutrofización incluso cuando se actúa sobre las fuentes de contaminación más visibles.⁠ ⁠ 📄 Rodríguez-Puig, J. et al. (2026). Limnology and Oceanography.⁠ 🔗 Más info en el enlace de la bio!⁠ ⁠ 🔬Un estudio de OPAL (Origin and Pathways of Anthropogenic solutes into coastal Lagoons: groundwater, sediments, and episodic events) por ICTA-UAB, UPCT, ICM-CSIC⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #ICTAUAB #MarMenor #Contaminación #CambioClimático #ICTAOceansChallenge #CienciaAmbiental #ConservaciónMarina #UAB #Investigación by @icta.stories
🥵🌇 La calor extrema no només fa les ciutats menys habitables, també redefineix qui es pot permetre viure on.⁠ ⁠ L’equip del projecte ClimateJusticeReady, liderat per Isabelle Anguelovski i Amalia Calderón-Argelich de Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) de l’ICTA-UAB, ha creat el primer índex de vulnerabilitat a la gentrificació climàtica de l'àrea metropolitana de Barcelona. ⁠ ⁠ 🗺️ Una eina d'accés lliure, desenvolupada des del laboratori BCNUEJ, que permet consultar desenes d'indicadors ambientals, socials i d'habitatge, carrer a carrer, en 36 municipis.⁠ ⁠ 😮 El resultat sorprèn: les zones més vulnerables no són els centres urbans, sinó la perifèria metropolitana.⁠ ⁠ 📍Esteu vivint algun d'aquests canvis al vostre barri o municipi? Expliqueu-nos-ho als comentaris i compartiu aquest mapa amb qui creieu que li pot ser útil.⁠ ⁠ 🔎Explora el mapa al link de la bio i a la pàgina del BCNUEJ: https://www.bcnuej.org/feature-climatejusticeready/⁠ ⁠ #GentrificacióClimàtica #JustíciaClimàtica #Barcelona #ICTAUAB #Habitatge #Calor #ClimateJustice #ICTACitiesChallenge by @icta.stories
💫Our new institutional video showcases ICTA-UAB’s vision, research framework & values. In times of unprecedented environmental and social challenges, bold action is not an option—it’s a necessity. At ICTA-UAB, we believe that science must rise to the occasion. We challenge the status quo, demand accountability, and push the boundaries of knowledge to drive real-world change. 🔬 Pioneering research ⚖️ Commitment to society and equity 🚀 Brave solutions for a sustainable future 📢 Holding decision-makers accountable 😍This project was developed in collaboration with the fabulous team at @quepo_org to provide our center with a compelling and engaging way to present itself—to the scientific community, to society, and to the world. #ICTAresearch #ICTAUAB #ICTAstories #climatechange #climatecrisis #scicomm #science ⁠#visualidentity #research #branding by @icta.stories
🌡️🪭What does a heatwave feel like for migrant communities in European cities? Why do people assume you’re used to it because you “come from a hot country”?⁠ ⁠ In The Heat Gap, people who came to Athens from Tunisia, Kashmir and elsewhere, along with Athenians born to migrant families, talk about work, health and belonging during ever hotter summers. They also talk about what helps them get through: a rugby team, neighbourhood children’s camps, and collective action.⁠ ⁠ The film is one of a series of short documentaries by IMBRACE, an ERC-funded research project at ICTA-UAB on climate change, health and immigration. Each documentary is set in one of the project’s case study cities, and more are on the way.⁠ ⁠ 🎥 Directed by @angeloskarakoulias⁠ ▶️ Full film on YouTube, link in bio!⁠ ⁠ 👀Learn more about IMBRACE at imbrace-erc.org⁠ ⁠ #Athens #ClimateJustice #HeatWaves #Migration #ClimateHealth #UrbanHeat by @icta.stories
Why do cities depend on growth? The new Deep Dive Online Course ‘Urban Postgrowth Politics’, taught by Sarah Bretschko, explores the relationship between urban development and economic growth and looks at how cities are sites both of struggle and of possibility for postgrowth politics🏙️🏗️ Cities are key when thinking about a postgrowth world🌏 🗓️5 online classes | Nov 19th to Dec 17th | Thursdays at 16-18:30h ⏰ Applications are open until November 15th! 🔗 See the complete syllabus and application information at the link in our bio by @icta.stories
🏙️ In 2014, São Paulo approved a Master Plan to build a fairer, more climate-resilient city. Putting it into practice has been another story.⁠ ⁠ “From ideal to concrete: São Paulo, a mosaic of contrasts” is a documentary by Beatriz Pierri Daunt of our BCNUEJ lab, based on her research on urban planning and land change in Latin American cities. It looks at the challenges and opportunities of planning for Latin America’s largest metropolis, and at the gap between the plan’s ambitions and its execution.⁠ ⁠ The film is the result of research funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the María de Maeztu Programme, and was made for a non-academic audience.⁠ ⁠ 🎬 Join us for the screening at our Film Forum, followed by an online discussion with Brazilian filmmaker Manoela Meyer. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Find the link to the streaming session at the link in our stories, bio or on the calendar section of our website! ⁠ ⁠ 📅 Tue 10 November, 13:30–15:00⁠ 📍 Room Z/033, ICTA-UAB + online by @icta.stories
👏Eighteen ICTA-UAB researchers appear in the latest Stanford/Elsevier ranking of the world’s most-cited scientists. The ranking is based on Scopus data and covers 22 fields and 174 subfields.⁠ ⁠ Congratulations to Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Isabelle Anguelovski, Jeroen van den Bergh, Joan Martínez Alier, Victoria Reyes-García, Dan Brockington, Oriol Marquet, Esteve Corbera, Johannes Langemeyer, Eric Galbraith, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Arnim Scheidel, Helen Cole, Sergio Villamayor, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Samuel Nello-Deakin and Umberto Lombardo.⁠ ⁠ Citations show something real about how research is read and built on. They also have limits, and some of our researchers have studied those limits. Dan Brockington co-authored a 2024 study in Quantitative Science Studies on the growing strain on scientific publishing. Among other things, it looks at how citation metrics lose their value once they become targets.⁠ ⁠ How do you think research should be evaluated?⁠ ⁠ Read more about the ranking at the link in our bio! 🔗 by @icta.stories
🌲Last month, authors including our researcher Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, met in Bangkok to continue developing the IPBES Second Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.⁠ ⁠ Beyond updating the 2019 report, this assessment will track progress towards the 2030 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and will include a dedicated chapter on Indigenous and local knowledge systems, Álvaro's area of focus. ⁠ ⁠ #ICTAUAB #IPBES #Biodiversity #GlobalAssessment #EcosystemServices #IndigenousKnowledge by @icta.stories
🦇🎃 As Halloween approaches, bats are everywhere!⁠ ⁠ This Bat Appreciation Month, we’re looking back at research on bats and people that ICTA-UAB researcher Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares carried out alongside his long-standing collaborators Adrià López-Baucells (BiBio Research Group, Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers) and Ricardo Rocha (University of Oxford). Over the years, the three have brought together their shared curiosity about human-bat relationships in a remarkable body of research, publishing many scientific papers and with plenty more to come! In 2021, the three of them co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Ethnobiology on how bats have been feared, celebrated and used across cultures, from folklore and spiritual traditions to food, medicine, and everyday interactions.⁠ ⁠ The Madagascar folktale comes from one of their studies in that issue, based on interviews with 108 adults in 14 villages around Ranomafana National Park. ⁠ ⁠ Those stories can matter for bats themselves. In an earlier study in southwestern Madagascar, the team found that caves considered sacred sheltered at least six bat species, including the threatened Madagascar fruit bat (Eidolon dupreanum). But few people still recognised the caves as sacred, a sign of how changing beliefs can affect wildlife.⁠ ⁠ 🦇 Find the link to the special issue of the Journal of Ethnobiology in our bio!⁠ ⁠ 📷 Credits:⁠ Slide 1: 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑚, Brazil. © Adrià López-Baucells⁠ Slide 2: Hans Memling, Hell, c. 1485 (via Wikimedia Commons)⁠ *Slide 3: 𝐸𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑎, Costa Rica. © Adrià López-Baucells⁠ Slide 4: 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠, Madagascar. © Adrià López-Baucells⁠ Slide 5: Zhong Kui with five bats representing the five blessings, xylograph, late 19th–early 20th century, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (via Wikimedia Commons); Dish with peaches and bats, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1723–35), The Metropolitan Museum of Art⁠ Slide 6: 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑠, Spain. © Adrià López-Baucells⁠ Slide 7: 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑖, Madagascar. © Adrià López-Baucells by @icta.stories
🌳 Un estudi liderat per l’investigador de l’ICTA-UAB Ricard Segura mostra que, quan coincideixen calor i sequera, l’ombra és el benefici dels arbres de carrer que més aguanta, sempre que conservin les fulles. Per això, els autors aposten per triar espècies que conservin les fulles a l’estiu, regar-les quan més apreta la calor i cuidar la humitat del sòl als escocells. "Un dels desafiaments més grans que afronta la ciutat és aconseguir que els arbres mantinguin prou fullatge durant els períodes de sequera, i especialment durant les onades de calor, que és precisament quan més necessitem l’ombra que proporcionen," diu Segura. L’estudi, publicat a la revista Urban Climate, recrea l’onada de calor de juliol de 2015 a l’Eixample i forma part del projecte URBAG, finançat pel Consell Europeu de Recerca (ERC) i liderat per Gara Villalba. ⁠ Més informació a l’enllaç de la bio! 🔗⁠ ⁠ 🗺️ Imatge 1: Plànol d’Ildefons Cerdà i Pere Roca (1861). Cartoteca Digital de l’ICGC. 📷 Imatge 4: URBAG by @icta.stories
Most urban flood planning shares a blind spot: it overlooks pluvial flooding. 🌧️⚠️ When sudden downpours overwhelm drainage systems, the fallout triggers cascading infrastructure failures and hits marginalized communities hardest. In a new study published in PNAS, researchers introduce an integrated framework to evaluate flood risk by connecting: ▫️ Direct population exposure ▫️ Social vulnerability ▫️ Disruptions to critical infrastructures and services The work was led by Pablo Herreros-Cantis alongside a team of co-authors. Swipe through the slides for the key takeaways. 🔗 Read the full paper via the link in our bio! by @icta.stories
🌍 For October 24th, International Day of Climate Action, we looked at where the world stands, and there's both good news and bad news. Clear progress in some areas, setbacks in others, and overall change still far slower than the science calls for. Several of the studies behind this post come from ICTA-UAB researchers, including Jason Hickel, Jeroen van den Bergh and Dan Brockington. Their studies are a reminder that what counts as progress is still debated. Carbon pricing has cut emissions, but how far it can take us is contested. And even where emissions are falling, once you count the raw materials economies consume, decoupling looks less convincing. It's clear that progress is possible. But we've heard it before: We need to move faster. Swipe through for the full picture. Sources for every figure are in the first comment 👇 by @icta.stories

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