Articles

El laboratori d’agricultura urbana integrat en l’edifici ICTA-UAB

Arcas-Pilz, Verónica; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier

OPEN ACCESS at Dossier Tècnic. Núm. 125 Sistemes d’integració de vegetació en edificis: experiències a Catalunya. Novembre 2023, pàg. 16-20 Volem demostrar la viabilitat del […]

Llegir més

The Role of Informal Waste Management in Urban Metabolism: A Review of Eight Latin American Countries

Espinosa-Aquino, Beatriz; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier; Quirós Vargas, Roberto

OPEN ACCESS at Sustainability (Switzerland), 2023, 15(3), 1826 Social and spatial segregation structures in Latin America are perceived as processes for the selective concentration of social […]

Llegir més

Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City

Vidal, Veronica; Cortés, Ana, Badia, Alba; Villalba, Gara

ACCESS at Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2023), 14073 LNCS, pp. 61–73 Improving […]

Llegir més

Automatic Green Land-Use Generator for Urban Areas

Vidal, Veronica; Carrillo, Carlos; Cortés, Ana, Badia, Alba; Villalba, Gara

ACCESS at Proceedings 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2023, 2023 Away to improve air quality (AQ) in urban areas consists of including more […]

Llegir més

Modelling the impacts of emission changes on O3 sensitivity, atmospheric oxidation capacity, and pollution transport over the Catalonia region

Badia, Alba; Vidal, Veronica; Ventura, Sergi; Curcoll, Roger; Segura, Ricard; Villalba, Gara

OPEN ACCESS at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2023), 23(18), 10751–10774 Tropospheric ozone (O3) is an important surface pollutant in urban areas, and it has complex […]

Llegir més

Analysis of synoptic weather patterns of heatwave events

Ventura, Sergi; Miró, Josep Ramon; Peña, Juan Carlos; Villalba, Gara

OPEN ACCESS at Climate Dynamics (2023) 61, 4679–4702 Heatwaves (HWs) are expected to increase both in duration and intensity in the next decades, but little […]

Llegir més

Measuring BVOC emissions released by tomato plants grown in a soilless integrated rooftop greenhouse

Stringari, Gaia; Villanueva, Joan; Appolloni, Elisa; Orsini, Francesco; Villalba, Gara; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier

OPEN ACCESS at Heliyon (2023) e23854 Urban design is currently promoting the inclusion of plants in buildings. However, plants emit biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), […]

Llegir més

Mapping Roof Materials in Cities for Food, Water, and Energy Production: A Mediterranean Metropolitan Area Case Study

Zambrano-Prado, Perla; Josa, Alejandro; Rieradevall, Joan; Alamús, Ramon; Pérez, Fernando; Marchan, Juan; Gassó, Santiago; Gabarrell, Xavier

ACCESS at Journal of Urban Technology (2023) 30, 25-51 In recent years, rooftops have been used as productive spaces for local resource (e.g. food, water, […]

Llegir més