A5057564996- Regional resilience and development
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Latin American Urban Studies
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Water management and technologies
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
2017-2021
Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology
2021
Gran Sasso Science Institute
2015-2018
Work Research Centre
2018
Research Network (United States)
2018
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2011-2013
The concept of urban resilience has so far been related mainly to climate change adaptation and disaster management perspectives. Here we aim broaden the discussion by showing how framework should be wider sustainability challenges, including i) natural hazard threats, ii) unsustainable metabolism patterns iii) increasing social inequalities in cities. Using three case studies (flood risk Dutch polders, urban–rural teleconnections driving Bolivian quinoa market, spatial diversity adaptive...
Reduction of carbon emissions and climate-resilience in cities are becoming important objectives to be achieved order ensure sustainable urban development pathways. Traditionally, have treated climate mitigation adaptation strategies isolation, without addressing their potential synergies, conflicts or trade-offs. Recent studies shown that this can lead inefficiencies planning, conflicting policy lost opportunities for synergistic actions. However, the last few years, we observed...
Campus greening is often the first step universities take towards sustainability. However, diffusion of sustainability reporting methodologies and rankings still at an early stage, biased in mainly measuring energy efficiency indicators while omitting basic features enabling meaningful comparisons among centers or addressing social (users) aspects related to long term transitions. This paper aims introduce a critical perspective on university frameworks through: (i) review current...
Resilience is a multi-faceted concept frequently used across wide range of disciplines, practices, and sectors. There growing recognition the utility resilience as bridging that can facilitate inter-and transdisciplinary approaches to tackle complexities inherent in decision making under conditions risk uncertainty. Such are common urban planning, infrastructure asset management, emergency crisis development processes where systemic interdependencies interests at stake influence decisions...
Cities are increasingly joining forces through transnational municipal networks. The presented research focuses on one of the key services these organisations: providing a platform for city-to-city learning. Interviews with representatives networks and cities showed that network organisations local policymakers aim to connect peers from face similar challenges or considered frontrunners. However, main perceived added value studied is around their function as facilitator personal networking...
This paper examines the planning paradigm shift related to contested “urban renaissance” mega-project in Downtown Seoul (Korea). Similar other global cities, over last few decades, different mega-projects have been successfully implemented Seoul. These projects considered engines for urban renewals and transformation. builds on analysis of failure re-framing strategy Green Corridor (GC) mega-project, part “Urban Renaissance Master Plan Seoul”. The GC case reveals various critical insights...
Urbanized delta areas worldwide share a growing tendency of exposure to water stress induced by the effects climate change and anthropogenic factors, threatening operation infrastructure systems future urban development. The important synergistic impacts coexisting with freshwater scarcity are increasing urbanization rates, subsiding soils, saltwater intrusion in aquifers rivers, coastal erosion, increased flooding. Innovative design strategies concepts for integration decentralized...
Smart, green, and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down technocratic approaches. However, based on the notion to return “the right city”, emerging community-driven initiatives are providing self-managed infrastructures contributing urban sustainability transitions. This paper explores relevance of behavioral aspects people-centered approaches in dealing with two different facets metabolism: physical infrastructure (involvement management decentralized...
This paper investigates the emergence of informal planning practices and their relationship with new geometries power responsibility that characterise what is here defined described as ‘fluid governance’; leads to co-creative forms public space governance. In particular, research explores key role played by some politically progressive urban gardening in pivoting actions transform green spaces through into areas for food production collaborative management. challenges traditional governance...
Within urban design there is increasing interest in the close relationship between social, economic and political processes production of public spaces. This relationship, however, often remains abstract rarely illustrated empirical studies. paper introduces an institutionalist understanding to spaces, whereby emphasis placed on analysis structuring forces actors as a way apprehend complexity social guiding influencing planning, management The case study renewal project Barcelona. results...
The existing water management in Dutch polders is based on independent systems for each polder. These are featuring artificial stabilized ground and surface levels. As a result of the local climate levels not continuously at constant level. To maintain stable table polders, surplus relatively clean rainwater has to be pumped away during cold seasons into canals or rivers, which located higher During summer polluted from these waterways led top up declining This procedure leads various...
Globalization, tourism, virtuality, climate change, and the explosive growth of cities have generated a wide range stressors, pollutants, toxins that been ravaging populations. This, coupled with viral, bacterial, other pandemics, is rapidly creating new reality requires public health factors to be integrated more thoroughly into planning design city regions. This prompts questioning role form centers as well distribution people activities in goes beyond outdoor spaces, places, criteria for...
A main challenge for the design and building of green smart cities is redevelopment existing built environments. This research investigates usefulness urban district sustainability evaluation systems in informing guiding projects. The German DGNB Urban District (DGNB UD) assessment certification system has been chosen among others due to its comprehensive method evaluate eight awarded projects from “Re-structuring Seunsangga Citywalk International Competition” organized Seoul’s downtown...
Smart, green and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down practices. Hard infrastructures planning measures the engine for protecting reducing urban vulnerability in last decades. However, social networks community actions strengthening effectiveness of resilience many cases.The emergent global framework resilience, by Rockefeller Foundation, recognized key relevance such social-driven building, which requires a more accurate conceptualization further empirical...