This article reviews the techniques and methodologies currently used for the detection and treatment of pig slurry, and specifically of nitrates, which are the main source of environmental contamination caused by pig manure. The authors demand joint...
Inmigración y Diversidad en España. Crisis econòmica y gestión municipal (Immigration and Diversity in Spain: Economic Crisis and Municipal Management), which was recently published by...
The detection and diagnose of improper uses of the internet and ICTs among youngsters help prevent and act in time against their potential negative effects. With this aim, the Organitzational Development Team (EDO) carried out a research in 2014 in several Spanish localities, with the...
The TRITON network, funded by the CYTED program, aims to promote the treatment and recycling of wastewater from the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Latin American region by using...
Concepts such as environmental racism, popular epidemiology, environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous, biopiracy or food sovereignty, and many others, serve to describe and participate in ecological distribution conflicts. They are conflicts related to the extraction...
The powerful conception that surrounds the high positions of responsibility are still moving, hindering or delaying the path of women to the top organization level. This research, through two series of...
Although some of today’s armed conflicts seem unsolvable, the fact is that in the last three decades, four out of five of the armed conflicts have concluded with a peace agreement at a negotiating table. This book –written by Vicenç...
World Mental Health Day is held annually on the 10th of October, to raise awareness and inform on mental health issues and win support. At the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the group of researchers that make up the CORE-Mental Health network are...
One strategy for making industrial chemical reactions more sustainable is to use biocatalysts, such as enzymes or cells. The European project ROBOX, with the involvement of the UAB Department of Chemical Engineering, aims to spread the use of these catalysts to...
What happens when an academic has to make an educational video and a TV producer has to give a formal lecture? In Menorca, in May 2013, the International School of Spring, devoted to "Science on Television" brought together academics and professionals from...
