GEAR in Merida, Mexico 7th SHAIO Conference

Three members of GEAR partipated at the 7TH SHAIO Conference held in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (http://io7.shaio.es/). The biennial international conference of the Hispanic-American Input-Output Society (http://www.shaio.es/en/).

The papers presented were:

  • Zafrilla, J.E., López, L.A., Domingos, T. and Monsalve, F. “Technology-based criterion to share environmental responsibility”.
  • Tobarra, M.A., Gómez, N. and Chitnis, M. “Environmental Impact from Spanish Food Waste”.
  • Arce, G., Tisserant, A., López, L.A. and Wood, R. “Who drives climate change? The relevance of extreme inequality”
  • Monsalve, F., Zafrilla, J.E., Cadarso, M.A. and García-Alaminos, A. “Unintended social consequences of EU financial framework 2014-2020”.

PICS FROM THE EVENT…

Recent publication

Óscar Dejuán and María Ángeles Cadarso, both GEAR members, in collaboration with Manfren Lenzen, have recently publish the book entitled “Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization. Input-Output Studies on the Consequences of the 2015 Paris Agreements”, Routledge.

Many questions arise from the Paris Agreement that points to a second Industrial Revolution. What are the required changes in the structure of production and in the patterns of consumption? What will be their impacts on emissions, employment and international trade? This book answers these questions from a variety of  input-output models able to compute the impacts on specific sectors and regions.

This volume has 17 chapters written by 52 co-authors who are specialists in input-output analysis and environmental sustainability. They come from 24 universities, research centers and international agencies all over the world, sharing their commitments to explain important and complex ideas in a way that is understandable to the non-experts and experts alike.

LINK: https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-and-Economic-Impacts-of-Decarbonization-Input-Output-Studies/Dejuan-Lenzen-Cadarso/p/book/9780415787406

We hope you enjoy it!

 

GEAR in Atlantic City, 25th IIOA Conference

Four members of GEAR partipated at the 25TH International Input-Output Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA (https://www.iioa.org/conferences/25th/conference.html), the yearly international conference of the International Input-Output Association (www.iioa.org). The papers presented were:

  • Arce, G., Zafrilla, J.E., López, L.A. and Tobarra, M.A. “Carbon footprint of human settlements in Spain”.
  • Monsalve, F., Zafrilla, J.E., Cadarso, M.A. and García-Alaminos, A. “Unintended social consequences of EU financial framework 2014-2020”.

PICS FROM THE EVENT…

 

IST-MARETEC and EIMIA visiting GEAR

Two researchers from the “Instituto Superior Técnico” of the University of Lisbon and MARETEC and one from the “Escuela de Ingeniería Minera e Industrial de Almadén” of the UCLM, have visited GEAR.

Last Tuesday, May 23, Kai Whiting, Gabriel Carmona and Ángeles Carrasco visited GEAR and presented their research lines and a paper entitled “Material services: with both eyes fully open”.

At the working meeting, some lines of future collaboration between the two teams were established, within the already established collaborations with the director of MARETEC (http://maretec.org/), Tiago Domingos.

Thanks for the visit guys!

 

Computing GHG Emissions (MATLAB Open Code)

Fabio Monsalve, member of the GEAR Group, has published a, open MATLAB code allowing the computation of the Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions (Co2 equivalent) according to the Environmentally Extended Mutiregional Input-Output Methodology (EEMRIO) and realying on World Input Output Database (WIOD).

CODE DOWNLOAD LINKS:

In this code, the emissions, attributed to a bill of Final Demand, are allocated to countries/regions(41) and sectors (35). To run the model, it is necessary to download the following files from WIOD site:

The files should be uncompressed (if necessary) and saved in the same folder where the code is (saving in another folder will require changes in the set path preferences of Matlab).

Fabio hopes you find this code useful for your Multiregional Input-Output analysis!!

 

GEAR participates in 2017 PINT OF SCIENCE!

GEAR Group has been invited to take part of the 2017 Pint of Science that will take place next May 16 in Albacete, at the St. Patrick’s Irish Pub.

Jorge Zafrilla will present an open speech about the future challenges of the current unsustainable human footprints.

Come an join #PINT17ALB!!!

 

PICTURES OF THE EVENT:

 

More information: https://pintofscience.es/events/albacete

GEAR in Seville

On March 17th the GEAR member Fabio Monsalve, taught a Seminar entitled “Cálculo de Huellas Ambientales con MatLab” at the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences in the University of Seville.

Fabio was invited by the Master of “Economics and Development” and by some colleagues from the Department of “Economic Analysis and Political Economics“.

Thank you for the invitation!

We hope you enjoy the seminar!

New publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production

GEAR team members Luis A. López, Guadalupe Arce and Jorge Zafrilla, in collaboration with Manuel Morenate, graduate student of the Master’s Degree Programme
in Sustainable Growth and Development, have recently published a new paper in the Journal of Cleaner Production entitled “How does income redistribution affect households’ material footprint?”.

 

LINK to the Journal: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617301579

 

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GEAR participates in the UCLM-MUST experience

The GEAR’s researcher Guadalupe Arce participated in the second UCLM-MUST seminar.

Students from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and from the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) attended to the conference and participated in the groupal dynamic guided by Guadalupe. The activity was entitled “Consecuencias medioambientales del comercio España-China”.

Thanks to the organizers for the invitation and for proposal of all of these constructive alternatives and experiences in the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences in Albacete.

More information about the seminar here: http://humanidadesab.uclm.es/actividades/2016/12/19/relaciones-espana-china-economia-cultura-y-sociedad/

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GEAR on the Radio!

Jorge Zafrilla, one of the GEAR members, has been interviewed in “Castilla-La Mancha Hoy” from CMM Media Radio.

In this interview, Jorge tries to explain a recent GEAR publication in Nature Climate Change about the Technology-based assumption to share, globally, emissions responsibilities among countries.

If you are interested, please hear here the interview: http://www.ivoox.com/16477906

Language: Spanish.

 

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