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The Metropolitan Laboratory of Ecology and Territory of Barcelona (LET) was launched in 2018. LET is a project that seeks to contribute to develop new criteria, concepts, cartography, databases, models and indicators for the functional analysis of the metropolitan system from a socio-ecological perspective, in order to influence public policies and land use planning.

Highlights

The Metropolitan Butterfly Observatory mBMS launches an interactive viewer data updated in real time

The LET assess the Urban Master Plan for the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona in the framework of LIFE ‘Urban Greening Plans’ project.

The LET leads the new international research project PRIMA called Mediterranean Agroecosystems for Sustainability and Resilience under Climate Change (MA4SURE)

NEWS

06/03/2023

Agroecoland and Agroecoscaling, the two new European projects led by the LET

13/03/2023

The mBMS at the Ciutats de Ciència conference

10/03/2023

Certified organic farming is not enough to overcome some trends of industrial agriculture

PUBLICATIONS

Marull, J.; Padró, R., La Rota-Aguilera, M. J. et al. 2023. “Modelling land use planning: Socioecological integrated analysis of metropolitan green infrastructures”. Land Use Policy 126: 106558.

Fullana, O., Tello, E., Murray, I. et al. 2021. “Socio-ecological transition in a Mediterranean agroecosystem: What energy flows tell us about agricultural landscapes ruled by landlords, peasants and tourism (Mallorca, 1860-1956-2012)”. Ecological Economics 190 (December): 107206

Alabert, A.; Marull, J.; Ruiz, A. et al. 2021. “Space-time dynamics of urban systems from satellite images of night lighting. Urban progress scenarios for European metropolitan regions”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 86 (March): 101587.

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