Title: Leveraging circular nutrients to improve the sustainability of peri-urban agriculture / Agriculture in the urban periphery (peri-UA) can potentially reduce its environmental impact through nutrient recovery from municipal solid and water waste, promoting local crops and displacing some dependency on imports.
We are thrilled to announce that the European Commission’s CORDIS service has published a feature article on the results of the URBAG project. The piece, titled "Prioritising integrated, vulnerability-focused urban greening," highlights the successful completion of our ERC-funded research and underscores our key findings regarding the complexities of Green Infrastructure (GI).
És un gran plaer convidar-vos a la presentació de Tesi Doctoral d’en Guido Evangelista el proper 6 de Febrer a les 10:00 a l’ICTA-UAB sala Montseny Z/022- Z/023. També és possible connectar-se online mitjançant l'enllaç que proporcionem. Supervisors: Dr. Xavier Gabarrell (UAB), Dr. Gara Villalba (UAB) and Dr. Francesco Orsini (University of Bologna)
We are looking for a doctoral candidate to join our team at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) to work on research related to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The successful candidate will be enrolled in the Environmental Science and Technology doctoral programme at UAB and supervised by an interdisciplinary team including Vanessa Monteiro, Gara Villalba and Ariane Arias.
Title: Adapting urban areas to rising temperatures: Strategies to reduce heat and vulnerability in a warming world / The need for cities to prepare for the increasing frequency, persistence, and intensity of heat waves (HWs) makes modeling these events essential for evaluating the effectiveness of heat adaptation strategies.
Title: Effect of land use changes on air quality: impacts of urbanization, urban vegetation, and agriculture / Urbanization converts natural landscapes into impervious surfaces, altering local climate and air quality. Greening strategies are adopted to mitigate these effects, yet their effectiveness depends on land use, urban form, geography, and climate interactions.
El 6 de novembre, Gara Villalba va presentar la seva recerca titulada "Circularitat per Regenerar: El Paper del Carboni i els Nutrients en la Salut del Sòl" al 24è Congrés de l’APEVC, un esdeveniment clau celebrat a la Fira de Reus destinat a posar en valor el paper estratègic del verd en la salut pública i la configuració d’un territori més habitable.
On 12nd November, Qing Luo presented her work at the RESPIRE-CLIMA workshop, a key event aimed at strengthening the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions monitoring system in Spain. Organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – National Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS) and AEMET, the workshop brought together more than 80 participants both onsite and online.
Title: Applying Recovered Nutrients and Pruning Waste to Enrich and Regenerate Agricultural Soils in Urban Agriculture: Effects on Emissions and Yield of Spinach and Sweet Potato / Nutrient recovery from urban waste can substitute chemical fertilizers, but nutrient cycling in depleted soils can be ineffective. A promising strategy is the incorporation of unstable, carbon-rich biomass waste, which can regenerate soil while closing carbon and nutrient loops.
Title: The role of soil moisture and shading in influencing the capacity of urban street trees to reduce heat stress / Street trees can significantly reduce urban heat through shading and transpirative cooling, but their effectiveness may be compromised during heat waves with dry soil conditions. This study assesses the cooling potential of street trees using a modified BEP-Tree model.