http://hdl.handle.net/10256/1768 Sun, 04 May 2025 09:37:17 GMT 2025-05-04T09:37:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26586 Deurbanizing for conservation and adapting: framing ecological restoration as a nature-based solution in La Pletera salt marsh, Catalonia (Spain) Pereira Lindoso, Diego; Boix Masafret, Dani; Ribas Palom, Anna; Bou Manobens, Jordi; Quintana Pou, Xavier Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the great global challenges of the 21st century. The nature-based solutions (NbS) approach creates an opportunity to meet efforts on the two agendas while producing other co-benefits beyond climate resilience and biodiversity conservation. This opportunity becomes even more relevant in areas with both high climate vulnerability and special interest for conservation. Coastal wetlands in the Mediterranean basin are under severe threat from urban sprawl, mass tourism and climate change. Coastal lagoons, dune systems and halophilic ecosystems are considered as priority habitats of community interest for conservation by the European Habitats Directive. In the Catalan coast, these ecosystems are fragmented and isolated, and ecological protection and restoration efforts are essential. In this context, the present work analyzes the case of de-urbanization and ecological restoration of La Pletera salt marsh by the Life Pletera project (2014–2018), interpreting it within an NbS approach and assessing its effectiveness as a strategy for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. The analysis brings insights for the effectiveness assessment of the project during the first years after implementation, gathers elements on the factors and constraints that made its implementation possible and reflects on future challenges so that its effectiveness is lasting in the medium and long term Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26586 2025-01-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26389 Is climate change the problem? A feminist analysis of climate change discourses in Spain and Cataloni Borràs Escayola, Maria; Ravera, Federica; Rivera-Ferre, Marta Guadalupe The way climate change is framed and represented matters because it influences the type of actions and strategies promoted by climate-related policies. To understand how policies address climate change in the Spanish context, we performed an analysis of the discourse applying the “What’s the Problem Represented to be” Bacchi’s framework. We apply a feminist political ecology perspective, countering the dominant discourses around mitigation and adaptation to climate change, as well as identifying the silences on public policy at national (Spain) and regional (Catalonia) scales. Our results show that in both cases, the official policy discourse on climate change follows a techno-positivist and market driven narrative, mainly motivated by economic growth, not questioning much of the current economic model and without clearly addressing the responsibilities regarding the climate crisis and the resulting inequities associated to it. This representation presents climate change as a biophysical problem of increased concentration of greenhouse gases, which provides an opportunity for modernization and progress but at the same time, it is a threat to national security and a catalyst for existing vulnerabilities in the country. In contrast, the exploration of the silences of official public policy shows that climate change is represented as the visible consequence of a failed, patriarchal, and colonial system that needs to be solved under a social justice, human right and degrowth perspective. Alternative degrowth and ecofeminist discourses criticize the fallacy of greening the economic growth model and urge us to rethink the productive (and reproductive) current model, focusing on the sustainability of life as the central axis of transformation, “to live a life deserved to be lived” Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26389 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26287 Evaluating tourism scenarios within the Limit of Acceptable Change Framework in Barcelona Donaire, José Antonio; Galí Espelt, Núria; Coromina Soler, Lluís This article introduces an expanded Limit of Acceptable Change model, enhancing the traditional approach by incorporating various tourism scenarios and a broader range of indicators. This approach allows to gain a more comprehensive understanding and foresee the effects of diverse tourist profiles and intensities of use in Barcelona. It considers factors like motivation, origin, and accommodation type, and evaluates their effects on key sustainability indicators. The study reveals that significant shifts in tourism patterns are required to impact these indicators noticeably, emphasizing the need to consider both tourist numbers and typologies in sustainable tourism management. This approach equips destination planners with a valuable tool for strategic decision-making and long-term planning Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26287 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26269 Tourism-philia versus Tourism-phobia: residents and DMO's publicly expressed tourism perceptions in Barcelona Zerva, Konstantina; Palou Rubio, Saida; Blasco Franch, Daniel; Donaire, José Antonio The current research on hosts' perceptions of tourism has focused on survey-based studies, proving their heterogeneity at the moment of the study, but lacking to present any evolution over time. This paper aims to show if, and how, hosts' public narratives of tourism have changed in the particular case of the city of Barcelona (Spain) from 2004 to 2015, analyzing any common and opposing points of their argumentation as they may change over time. These narratives represent the perspectives of two opposing groups of hosts: residents and DMOs. We used thematic analysis to portray their public discourse, as expressed in the residents' magazine Carrer, and the annual reports of Turisme de Barcelona. Through the analysis of common and opposing points of their argumentation, our findings show a clear division between the residents' tourism-phobic perception and the DMO's tourism-philic one, which appears to change their structure over time, going from complete opposites to searching for common ground when tourism is addressed as part of the city's identity by both sides Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10256/26269 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z