Are Farmers Who Belong to Local User Associations Better Adapted to Climate Change?

Droughts, floods and high temperatures derived from climate change are not the only threats that farmers with irrigated crops must face.

Se prevén niveles de polen altos para esta primavera

 Investigadores de la Red Aerobiològica de Catalunya del ICTA-UAB y del Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología de la UAB han presentado hoy las previsiones de los niveles de polen y esporas en la atmósfera en Catalunya para la primavera y el verano.

Climate Change Threatens World's Largest Seagrass Carbon Stores

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Amazon's indigenous people hunt animals feeding in areas contaminated by oil spills

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The new Planttes app warns of allergy risks in different urban areas

The Planttes application is a citizen science project which aims to encourage people to identify and locate on a map the existence of allergy-causing plants and indicate their phenological state.

Global climate treaty easier to negotiate if guided by Human Development Index

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1ST ICTA-UAB SPRING SYMPOSIUM

1ST ICTA-UAB SPRING SYMPOSIUM.

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Making sense by democracy, non-violence, and conviviality.

New Project to Link Extreme Weather Events, Atmospheric Biodiversity and Human Health

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Bolivian Amazon on road to deforestation

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ICTA-UAB’s success: five ERC grants in two years

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Scientists Alert of Swift Degradation of Marine Ecosystems and Grave Consequences for the Planet

A book edited by researchers from the ICTA-UAB, the UB, the CNRS and the IEO addresses the concept of "animal forest" and highlights the importance of the role seas and oceans have in combating climate change.

ICTA-UAB researcher Victoria Reyes-García receives an ERC Consolidator Grant

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Research to study the health effects of forests

The ICTA-UAB, CREAF and the "la Caixa" Bank Foundation recently presented the project "Healthy Forests for a Healthy Society".

Blockadia map by ICTA-UAB reveals global scale of anti-fossil fuel movement

A new interactive map by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) reveals the worldwide impact of resistance direct actions by people putting their own bodies in the way of fossil fuel projects.

Launch of the Alliance of Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence

​ The Secretary of State for R&D+i, Carmen Vela, chaired the kickoff meeting of the new Severo Ochoa and Maria Maeztu Alliance of Excellence.

Green gentrification can limit the favourable effects of green areas on health

A scientific research conducted by ICTA-UAB and IMIM suggests that more socially disadvantaged neighbours do not benefit equally from the effects newly created green areas have on health.

EJAtlas Includes 2,100 Case Studies on Socio-Environmental Conflicts Around the World

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Ice age thermostat prevented extreme climate cooling

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New ICTA-UAB 'Welcome Guide'

The new ICTA-UAB 'Welcome Guide' it is at your disposal now. With this document, we aim to help you discover the basics of the PhD programme, ICTA-UAB’s structure, etc.
Seminaris
EEI SEMINAR: "The lacking dimension of justice in urban ecosystem service research and practice – steps forward" by Johannes Langemeyer

Date: 2018-01-10

Title:  "The lacking dimension of justice in urban ecosystem service research and practice – steps forward"

Speaker: Johannes Langemeyer, ICTA-UAB
Moderator/Discussant: Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos, ICTA-UAB


​Date: Wednesday, 10th January 2018
Time: 12.30 h
Place: Z/023 ICTA-UAB


Abstract
The ecosystem service approach is gaining momentum in influencing the global urban policy agenda. Yet, notions of justice and equity remain widely marginal to the rapidly developing research on urban ecosystem services and its operationalization in policy and planning. Neglecting justice and equity, at a time when the ecosystem service approach is gaining societal and policy influence, may lead to unjust policies, and bares the risk to undermine the wider societal acceptance of the ecosystem service approach on the long-run. In this seminar I will introduce and discuss a conceptual framework linking the ecosystem service cascade model to interactional, participatory and distributional justice. I will further present an operationalization of this framework in practice, along a case study of urban green space planning in Barcelona. The presentation will end with a brief outlook on steps forward to weave considerations of equity and social justice into ecosystem service research, reporting back on a special session hosted at the Ecosystem Service Partnership conference in December 2017.

Bio
Johannes is a post-doctoral researcher at ICTA and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM). His research is focusses on green infrastructure in cities with a specific focus on the representation of values and distribution of benefits through the lens of ecosystem services. Johannes is trained in geography (Humboldt University Berlin) and environmental science (JEMES) and holds a doctorate degree in Environmental Science and Technology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Sustainability Science from the Stockholm University (Stockholm Resilience Centre).
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