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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 research projects led by the LET

29/06/2023

Secondary forests continue to increase in the Iberian Peninsula at a rate higher than the European average

16/05/2023

Complex metropolitan regions, with several urban centers, are more economically efficient and less dependent on energy consumption

PUBLICATIONS

Palmero-Iniesta, M.; Espelta, J.M.; Padial-Iglesias, et al. 2021. “The Role of Recent (1985–2014) Patterns of Land Abandonment and Environmental Factors in the Establishment and Growth of Secondary Forests in the Iberian Peninsula”. Land, 10, 817.

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.

Marull, J., Farré, M., Espuña, M. A. et al. 2023. “How to measure large-scale complex urban network structures using night-time light satellite databases. Application to European metropolitan regions”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0 (0)

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