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Introduction
Assistant Professor at the Land Morphology and Engineering Department in the School of Civil Engineering (Madrid, Spain)
Wide experience in sustainable studies under Life Cycle Assessment and Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis.
Additional affiliations
February 2010 - February 2014
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- Grant from the Technical Univesity of Madrid
February 2009 - February 2014
October 2008 - April 2009
Publications
Publications (36)
Demand for a low carbon footprint may be a key factor in stimulating innovation, while prompting politicians to promote sustainable consumption. However, the variety of methodological approaches and techniques used to quantify life-cycle emissions prevents their successful and widespread implementation. This study aims to offer recommendations for...
A quantitative assessment of the embodied environmental impacts of infrastructures can provide initial guidance to industry practitioners and engineers at the outset of the construction projects. This study presents the applicability of the Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis as a pre-construction evaluation tool for quantifying the embo...
Las repoblaciones forestales son una medida de compensación de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) ampliamente utilizadas dentro de la acción climática. La capacidad secuestradora de CO2 de los bosques y su funcionalidad como grandes sumideros son las razones que hacen atractiva esta medida. No obstante, el proceso repoblador implica...
Reactive nitrogen (N) emissions can lead to severe environmental and human damages. To quantify these reactive N emissions the Nitrogen Footprint (NF) can serve as a valuable indicator. This work is the first attempt to quantify an institutional NF in Spain and the first institutional NF of a research center. The NF of the Spanish research center o...
The goal of this study was to provide quantitative agronomic data and environmental performance through a life cycle assessment of camelina in a crop rotation. For this purpose, camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz] was included in a crop rotation (camelina-barley [Hordeum vulgare (L.)]-camelina) fertilized with two organic fertilizers (dewatered...
Current eating patterns are damaging the environment and there is a need for dietary guidelines to address this issue. Schools can act as springboards to promote sustainable food habits. However, unlike other European national dietary guidelines, the Spanish school dietary guidelines do not include environmental sustainability guidance. In this stu...
Household consumption has been identified to have an essential role in influencing ultimately the environmental pressures generated by human activities. This study assesses the indirect environmental footprint of the Spanish households applying a combination of consumer expenditure surveys with environmentally extended multi-regional input–output a...
Over these past years, the degradation of the environment has led to an increasing awareness of human impacts on nature. This review adopts the bibliometric and scientometric analysis method to materialize the perception of the increasing interest in the Environmental Footprint domain and, more specifically, in the Environmental Footprint and Life-...
There is a growing interest in diets with respect to health and fitness. However, food production and consumption have been identified as major sources of environmental impacts. In this study, the maximum nitrogen (N) footprint of the European Union has been used as an indicator to describe the reactive nitrogen losses using food consumption and pr...
City-related nitrogen (N) loads pose a threat to the environment and alter its natural cycle. In this regard, citizen food consumption choices can have an essential impact on reducing N pollution. In this study, we present the first attempt to analyze the food N pollution of food consumed at city level. To this end, the nitrogen footprint (NF) conc...
This paper addresses the persistent sensing problem of moving ground targets of interest using a group of fixed wing UAVs. Especially, we aim to overcome the challenge of physical obscuration in complex mission environments. To this end, the persistent sensing problem is formulated under an optimal control framework, i.e. deploying and managing UAV...
The implementation of global sustainability has gained worldwide attention in recent years. The Organization Environmental Footprint, which encompasses 14 impact categories, is a multicriteria measure of the environmental performance of goods and services provided by an organization from a life cycle perspective. In this article, the focus is on qu...
Sustainable development challenges are increasingly concentrated in urban areas. In the European Union (EU), cities are expanding their urban green infrastructure (UGI) to reduce the effects of climate change and enhance resilience and sustainability. However, there exist few articles showing local case studies in intermediate cities of Europe. The...
The Environmental Footprint has been presented as a useful indicator to evaluate the environmental performance of organizations and products. In this study, a hybrid-MRIO approach is applied to quantify the Environmental Footprint related to the end-of-life phase of a dam. The analysis included the combination of primary activity data, such as fuel...
Over the past years, the implementation of urban and peri-urban orchards in cities has increased and so has the environmental awareness regarding these systems. This study applied the environmental extended multi-regional input-output analysis to obtain the Environmental Footprint associated with an organic peri-urban orchard network in Spain. The...
The European Union (EU) is advancing steadily toward the stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Various sectors are now obliged to make reductions, and new policies based on the carbon footprint are being encouraged. However, voluntary reporting of so‐called scope 3 emissions is hindering successful implementation of these poli...
En ciudades en las que prima el sector servicios, donde las rentas suelen ser medio-altas, las acciones asociadas al consumo tienen un mayor impacto sobre el cambio climático que aquéllas asociadas a la producción de bienes tangibles. Esto confiere a las decisiones individuales un gran poder transformador. En los últimos años se ha multiplicado la...
This article aims to quantify to what extent collaborative strategies are more effective than internal or organization-level actions to green supply chains. In this regard, the impact of decisions made at different stages of a supply chain in a product’s carbon footprint is quantified. Organizational and product carbon footprints are calculated usi...
This new publication is the sixth in a series and it is focused in the quantification of carbon footprint using input-output analysis techniques.
This easy wording book clarifies the understanding of the input-output model and develops numerous applications that allow the reader to understand all the potentialities. Besides, some useful tools, soft...
Wood has been presented as a carbon-neutral material capable of significantly contribute to climate change mitigation and has become an appealing option for the building sector. This paper presents the quantification of the organization environmental footprint of a wood parquet company. The multi-regional input-output (MRIO) database EXIOBASE was u...
En los últimos años las iniciativas de agricultura y naturación urbanas se han constituido en pieza clave tanto en proyectos desarrollados por la ciudadanía como en las políticas públicas diseñadas por diversas administraciones. En el caso de los huertos urbanos o escolares, la producción agrícola es normalmente escasa, por lo que la función princi...
This work presents an overview of Madrid from Sentinel-1A SAR sensor. For this purpose, a preliminary analysis was carried out involving 35 Interferometric Wide Swath SLC images from 29/10/2014 until 15/05/2016. SARPROZ software based on PSInSAR methodology was used. Results include geographic location of each PS, absolute and relative height (m),...
Forest managers and policy-makers are being encouraged to incorporate carbon sequestration as a criterion for decision-making. This is a great challenge for small-scale forestry where the conspicuous lack of practical knowledge available for managers prevents the implementation of criteria to promote carbon sequestration. The carbon simulation mode...
Carbon footprint (CF) can be a key factor stimulating innovation while driving sustainable decision making. The air transport sector and wildfires are considered to be relevant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Among the available resources for wildfire suppression, aerial firefighting – particularly using helitankers – is the most effectiv...
Differences between product and corporate carbon footprint seriously hinder its wider implementation. The compound method based on financial accounts is a tiered hybrid analysis developed from advances in ecological footprint which main strength is its capability to calculate both product and corporate carbon footprint in a comprehensive assessment...
The challenge of developing clean and renewable energy sources is becoming ever more urgent. Over the
last decade, the concept of carbon footprint has been used to report direct and indirect greenhouse gas
emissions and as a support for sustainable consumption decisions. However, the discrepancies in the
approaches based on either the product or co...
The current climate change scenario calls for decisive actions to ensure sustainable development, among which a key factor could be the goal of reducing carbon footprint. However, a major constraint is the voluntary reporting of what are known as "other indirect emissions", and this is particularly critical in service companies with a lack of direc...
The fight against climate change is one of the most important environmental challenges of this 21st century. To achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse gases emissions it is necessary to develop tools with the ability to be applied to all economy activities and to allow the measurement of the impact produced by human activity. The Carbon Footprint...
Prediction of future forest carbon (C) stocks as influenced by forest management and climate is a crucial issue in the search for strategies to mitigate and adapt to global change. It is hard to quantify the long-term effect of specific forest practices on C stocks due to the high number of processes affected by forest management. This work aims to...
Environmental information is required in order to make sustainable consumption decisions. Carbon Footprint offers a new scheme for reporting direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. The latest advances in Organization-Product-Based-Life-Cycle Assessment such as the Compound Method based on Financial Accounts provide an opportunity to work with...
Forest stands play a key role in carbon (C) sequestration. Numerous methods and models have been developed to estimate the carbon reservoirs and flows present in these ecosystems. In this study, the CO2FIX v.3.2 simulation model was used to analyse the C baseline in a pine-oak forest in the Juarez Mountain Range (“Sierra Juarez”), Oaxaca, Mexico. T...
La Huella de Carbono (HC) es un indicador de sostenibilidad ambiental capaz de contribuir a la consecución de una sociedad cuyas actividades resulten más sostenibles en relación al uso de los recursos del planeta. Su función es servir como herramienta de cálculo de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI). Sin embargo en la actualidad existen...
La preocupación sobre el cambio climático continúa en aumento. Las crecientes evidencias de sus implicaciones ambientales, sociales y económicas están haciendo que los gobiernos incorporen acciones en sus diferentes políticas y programas de actuación. El primer compromiso internacional fue el Protocolo de Kyoto, que estableció además de un compromi...
