David Saurı́
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4873685 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Saurı́ |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Saurı́ |
| ASSINATURA | SAURI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3618-7773 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 299 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Developing institutional frameworks to promote the uptake of alternative water resources at the building level
Local authorities are pivotal in promoting the adoption of decentralized alternative water sources, such as greywater reuse and rainwater harvesting for domestic non-potable water uses (e.g. toilet flushing or irrigation). Focusing on the process of updating a supra-municipal (provincial) framework to promote the use of such alternative water sources at the building scale, this paper analyzes and characterizes the evolution of local water-saving …
Risks into benefits
Purpose This paper departs from the catastrophic floods that struck Valencia in 2024 to highlight how unplanned urbanization and excessive confidence in conventional hydraulic engineering have exacerbated flood risk in the region. Instead, we advocate for integrating Nature-based Solutions drawn from approaches to flood management by traditional Mediterranean societies, especially in the so-called Boquera irrigation systems developed in Mediterra…
Lived experiences of water poverty in Barcelona
Water poverty, mostly expressed as the inability to afford the costs of water, is becoming a growing problem for European vulnerable households, despite universal availability of safe, secure, and reliable water. In this article and through interviews with 112 households in three cities of the province of Barcelona, we explore how water poverty manifests in the daily practices and coping strategies of household members. Findings reveal how these …
Corrosive flows, faulty materialities
The history of hydraulic infrastructures is plagued with failures often with catastrophic consequences. Although the agency of water in disasters has been widely documented less well known are the substances in water such as salt that may cause infrastructural collapse and harm humans, flora and fauna. In the Llobregat River Basin (Barcelona), a 120-km long pipe transports salt-saturated wastewaters produced in the potash mines of central Catalon…
Sociospatial characteristics, domestic water use and the Covid 19 pandemic
Religion and Adaptation to Climatic Variability in Agricultural Frontiers
Climate variability in agricultural frontiers such as the subtropical zone of South America has required complex forms of human adaptation. Beginning in the 1920s, Mennonite farming in the El Chaco region of Paraguay, organized under strong communal principles rooted in religious values, has developed a food production system based on meat and dairy products that contributes significantly to Paraguayan economy but that is always subject to the va…
Policy sequencing for early-stage transition dynamics – A process model and comparative case study in the water sector
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River
At the intersection of natural and social sciences, interest in river sedimentary fluxes and their alteration by human activities is increasing in the context of general retreat of delta formations. Since the 1950s, the construction of large dams in the main course of rivers has produced, among other impacts, a radical decrease in sedimentary fluxes — a key factor in the worldwide sedimentary crisis. While sediment accumulates in reservoirs, the …
The water-energy nexus in hotels and recreational activities of a mass tourism resort
This paper analyses the water-energy nexus (WEN) in hotels and recreational activities of Benidorm, a mass tourism resort on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. A survey was administered to a sample of three- and four-star hotels to estimate (1) water and energy consumption; (2) energy consumption for water uses, and (3) trade-offs between water and energy. Quantitative data was complemented with selected interviews with hotel managers and staff. A …
Agent-based modelling to simulate the socio-economic effects of implementing time-of-use tariffs for domestic water
Feeding the City and Making the Revolution
The everyday difficulties faced by working‐class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied by a revolution, in the Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices surrounding food in Barcelona during the years 1936–1939, we contribute to critical research on food sov…
Assessing affordability as water poverty in Metropolitan Barcelona
Water poverty is a multidimensional concept open to a variety of definitions. In this paper, we focus on the affordability component of water poverty which emerges as the most relevant dimension of water poverty in the developed world where an increasing number of households are unable to afford the price of water. As in energy poverty, this degrades the metabolic flows of an essential resource in households threatening the livelihoods of members…
Cultivar bajo las bombas
Urban agriculture is key when food security is threatened, as in the cases of wars, which disrupt food production, conservation, transportation, and distribution systems. During the two World Wars of the 20th century, governments mobilized civilians to participate in food production and to increase morale by contributing to the war effort from the rearguard. Unlike these cases, food production in Spanish cities during the civil war of 1936-1939 h…
Las desigualdades en el acceso al agua en ciudades latinoamericanas de rápido crecimiento
Las ciudades de las regiones en desarrollo estn atravesando por un proceso de urbanizacin sin precedentes que est reconfigurando el abastecimiento de agua. Por un lado, se favorece la expansin de redes de agua potable, pero por otro, se mantienen prcticas "informales" (camiones pipa, piln de uso pblico, pozos etc.). En este artculo abordamos el suministro de agua potable en dos realidades urbanas distintas en la ciudad de Arequipa, Per
Fringe more than context
More exposed but also more vulnerable? Climate change, high intensity precipitation events and flooding in Mediterranean Spain
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of high intensity precipitation events in increasing the vulnerability to floods in Mediterranean Spain. Precipitation intensity in this area appears to have augmented in the last two decades in association with warming trends of the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, intense urbanization processes, occupying and transforming flood prone land, have produced an important increase in exposu…
Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies of Spanish Catalan Alpine Ski Resorts
Ski tourism in Catalonia has long been a fundamental socioeconomic asset for the Pyrenees region. However, in recent years some studies increasingly warn about the dubious future viability of most ski resorts as a result of climate change, and recommend the implementation of adaptation strategies for seasons in which snow maybe absent or insufficient. In this context, the article analyzes the evolution of the most common adaptation strategies to …
Changement climatiques et stratégies d’adaptation dans les stations de ski catalanes espagnoles
Le tourisme lié à la pratique du ski en Catalogne est depuis longtemps une ressource socioéconomique fondamentale pour la région des Pyrénées. Cependant, depuis quelques années, certaines études mettent de plus en plus en garde contre la viabilité douteuse de la plupart des stations de ski en raison du changement climatique et recommandent la mise en œuvre de stratégies d’adaptation pour les années où la neige est absente ou insuffisante. Dans ce…
Applicability of cadastral data to support the estimation of water use in private swimming pools
Studies addressing outdoor water use in residential areas rely on surveying methods, the manual digitization of aerial imagery and remote sensing-based approaches to estimate water consumption by different land uses. Publicly available cadastral data potentially offer a more efficient avenue for researchers to obtain information on land use parameters, but few assessments of their quality and applicability have been conducted. A sample of three l…
No more thirst, cold, or darkness!’ – Social movements, households, and the coproduction of knowledge on water and energy vulnerability in Barcelona, Spain
Peri-urban agriculture in Barcelona
Dispersed urbanisation promotes complex relationships between rural areas and the urban fringe, with emerging new functions for peri-urban agriculture (PUA). Although PUA is a type of productive farming of interest for urban planning due to its recognised functions, comparative analyses are needed to relate farm dynamics to fringe landscape modifications in different socio-economic contexts. Given the current limitation of specific methodologies …
Beyond the ‘Mediterranean city’
Swimming pools are together an exemplificative outcome of urban sprawl and an indicator of socio-spatial polarizations in metropolitan regions. A comparative analysis of the spatial distribution of pools in three Mediterranean cities (Barcelona, Rome and Athens) provides an alternative reading of recent urbanization in southern Europe, questioning the supposed homogeneity in socioeconomic patterns and processes across the region. In the present s…
Dangerous assemblages
Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence
A Research Synthesis and Theoretical Model of Relationships Between Factors Influencing Outdoor Domestic Water Consumption
Outdoor domestic water use is often targeted by demand management strategies. However, despite a rich empirical evidence base coming from primary studies, it is still unclear how factors that influence this type of demand interact and which are the most suitable to be addressed by water conservation programs. Based on 423 scientific contributions, we develop a research synthesis combining a variety of techniques to create a theoretical model of t…
Urbanization and class-produced natures
Recent developments in Spanish water policy. Alternatives and conflicts at the end of the hydraulic age
Beyond the ‘Mediterranean city’
Swimming pools are together an exemplificative outcome of urban sprawl and an indicator of socio-spatial polarizations in metropolitan regions. A comparative analysis of the spatial distribution of pools in three Mediterranean cities (Barcelona, Rome and Athens) provides an alternative reading of recent urbanization in southern Europe, questioning the supposed homogeneity in socioeconomic patterns and processes across the region. In the present s…
Urban sprawl pattern and land-use change detection in Yazd, Iran
Tourist land use patterns and water demand
Urbanization and Sustainable Resource Use
Urban sprawl is eroding the traditionally compact, diverse, and mixed Southern European cities. Besides the rise in land and energy consumption, the expansion of low density urban forms also affects water, a critical resource in the region. This study examines garden watering in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona in order to illustrate the importance of outdoor water use in the urbanization process, and, following the insights provided by urban…
Contesting large-scale water supply projects at both ends of the pipe in Kathmandu and Melamchi Valleys, Nepal
Atlantic Gardens in Mediterranean Climates
While the city of Barcelona is being held up worldwide as an example of a compact and sustainable urban settlement, its metropolitan region has been suburbanized with low-density housing that, among other impacts, threatens the water supply system of the area. In this process of urbanization new landscapes of consumption - greening the city with non-native natures - have been produced, requiring a higher use of water and other inputs. Starting wi…
Dangerous assemblages
Urbanisation and Water Consumption
This paper is concerned with the relationships between urbanisation and residential water consumption, taking as a case study the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona. More precisely, it investigates the influence of certain demographic, behavioural and housing factors on this consumption using descriptive statistics and a regression analysis. The data are derived from a sample of 532 households in 22 municipalities of the study area. Results show th…
Ideology, property, and groundwater resources
Learning processes during regime shifts
Servicing Customers in Revolutionary Times
Debates on the total or partial privatization of water usually follow the rationale that efficient and rational management is best left to the private sphere. In this paper and using a historical example, we attempt to assess critically this assumption arguing that efficiency and rationality in resource management are and have been an asset of collective management as well. We present the case of the Barcelona Water Company, run by its workers du…
Changing Conceptions of Sustainability in Barcelona's Public Parks
In this article we explore the relationships between public parks and a broad interpretation of sustainability, taking as a case study the city of Barcelona, Spain. Recent official discourses in Barcelona insist on sustainability as one of the fundamental assets of public parks. Yet whether these urban artifacts actually contribute to sustainability objectives in environmental and social terms remains to be examined. We compare two public parks i…
Latent sprawl, divided Mediterranean landscapes
Although Mediterranean cities have inherent differences on a local scale, together they offer a kaleidoscopic overview of distinctive morphologies and patterns of \nsocio-spatial segregation. In this study, we explore the distribution of residential swimming pools as indicators of the use of land and water at the metropolitan \nscale, in relation to recent changes in the socio-spatial structure of a large Mediterranean city (Athens, Greece). Our …
Embellishing nature
No more thirst, cold, or darkness!’ – Social movements, households, and the coproduction of knowledge on water and energy vulnerability in Barcelona, Spain
Conflicts and Struggles Over Urban Water Cycles
Historical accounts of the development of a modern city have paid a great deal of attention to the evolution of the water supply and the sanitation systems while the recognition of water as an element of social power and political conflict remains less studied. This paper highlights the relationship between the water cycle and its management and social conflicts in the development of the city of Barcelona in the twentieth century. Necessities, pe…
Ornamental plants and the production of nature(s) in the Spanish real estate boom and bust
The Spanish real estate boom and bust of the 2000s caused immense economic, social, and environmental changes across the country. Massive urbanization, however, does not necessarily entail the end of nature and natural processes, instead marking a radical transformation of environments and societies. Through a political ecology approach, we analyze how ornamental species have become a fundamental part of new natures induced by urbanization in the…
Trust and community building in the Doñana (Spain) toxic spill disaster
Appeals to public participation and, more generally, to a wider involvement of civic networks in the management of environmental conflicts are becoming more common after the difficulties that both the Market and the State appear to have in regulating these conflicts. The concern of this paper is with how central elements in civic society, such as interpersonal trust and community-building mechanisms, are influenced by environmental catastrophes. …
Policy sequencing for early-stage transition dynamics – A process model and comparative case study in the water sector
Peri-urban agriculture in Barcelona
Dispersed urbanisation promotes complex relationships between rural areas and the urban fringe, with emerging new functions for peri-urban agriculture (PUA). Although PUA is a type of productive farming of interest for urban planning due to its recognised functions, comparative analyses are needed to relate farm dynamics to fringe landscape modifications in different socio-economic contexts. Given the current limitation of specific methodologies …
Urban Ecology Under Fire”
This paper investigates the critical role of workers to enhance the resilience of water supply services in cities at war through analyzing the case of Madrid and the Madrid water company Canales del Lozoya during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). We argue that securing the protection of vital urban flows mediated through infrastructures is a key objective of cities under attack. In doing so we contend that examining how those affected by the int…
The Unintended Consequences of Ecological Modernization
In the context of the European debt crisis, neoliberal reforms question the legitimacy of the state in the direct provision of basic services. Water governance mirrors such issues. In Metropolitan Barcelona (northeast Spain) the water cycle is being redrawn with the leasing to private hands of the regional public bulk water supplier. The unbearable debt accumulated by the Catalan Water Agency is used as the discursive justification of the 'inevit…
Exploring the Links between Immigration, Ageing and Domestic Water Consumption
March H., Perarnau J. and Saur D. Exploring the links between immigration, ageing and domestic water consumption: the case of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Regional Studies . Mediterranean urban environments are increasingly undergoing structural or temporary episodes of water stress, which may lead to decreases in the use of water. Taking the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB) as a case study, this paper argues that socio-demographic fac…
Ideology, property, and groundwater resources
Environment and Economy
(1992). Environment and Economy: Property Rights and Public Policy. Economic Geography: Vol. 68, Theme Issue: Local Labor Markets, pp. 436-439
Putting the environment back into human geography
Since the environment seems to be back on the agenda of human geography, it is important to (re)introduce this fundamental topic into human geography courses. This paper describes a teaching experience in the Geography Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, in which a block on environment issues was added to the introductory courses ‘human geography’. While the experience had satisfactory results, it seems more appropriate t…
Embellishing nature
Recent developments in Spanish water policy. Alternatives and conflicts at the end of the hydraulic age
Causality and management of forest fires in Mediterranean environments
In this article we argue that the growing occurrence and impacts of forest fires in Catalonia can be mainly attributed not to climate change or individual misbehavior but to the decline of the landscape mosaic that has historically characterized Mediterranean rural areas. Recent socio-economic change has resulted in an uncontrolled growth of the forest masses in turn facilitating the propagation of large fires. Forest fire policy has reacted comp…
Trust and community building in the Doñana (Spain) toxic spill disaster
Appeals to public participation and, more generally, to a wider involvement of civic networks in the management of environmental conflicts are becoming more common after the difficulties that both the Market and the State appear to have in regulating these conflicts. The concern of this paper is with how central elements in civic society, such as interpersonal trust and community-building mechanisms, are influenced by environmental catastrophes. …
Ten years wasted
Urbanization and Sustainable Resource Use
Urban sprawl is eroding the traditionally compact, diverse, and mixed Southern European cities. Besides the rise in land and energy consumption, the expansion of low density urban forms also affects water, a critical resource in the region. This study examines garden watering in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona in order to illustrate the importance of outdoor water use in the urbanization process, and, following the insights provided by urban…
Urbanisation and Water Consumption
This paper is concerned with the relationships between urbanisation and residential water consumption, taking as a case study the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona. More precisely, it investigates the influence of certain demographic, behavioural and housing factors on this consumption using descriptive statistics and a regression analysis. The data are derived from a sample of 532 households in 22 municipalities of the study area. Results show th…
Urbanization and class-produced natures
The March towards Privatisation? Urban Water Supply and Sanitation in Spain
The privatisation of water and sanitation services in Spain has been fairly rapid in the recent decades, especially along the Mediterranean coast where high rates of population and economic growth are observed. Generally speaking and contrary to other areas, privatisation has not entailed important social conflicts. In fact, the most important recent social conflict regarding urban water in Spain had to do with the raise of taxes in the Barcelona…
Land-cover and land-use change in a Mediterranean landscape
Urban sprawl in the Mediterranean?
Conflicts and Struggles Over Urban Water Cycles
Historical accounts of the development of a modern city have paid a great deal of attention to the evolution of the water supply and the sanitation systems while the recognition of water as an element of social power and political conflict remains less studied. This paper highlights the relationship between the water cycle and its management and social conflicts in the development of the city of Barcelona in the twentieth century. Necessities, pe…
Tourist land use patterns and water demand
Changing Conceptions of Sustainability in Barcelona's Public Parks
In this article we explore the relationships between public parks and a broad interpretation of sustainability, taking as a case study the city of Barcelona, Spain. Recent official discourses in Barcelona insist on sustainability as one of the fundamental assets of public parks. Yet whether these urban artifacts actually contribute to sustainability objectives in environmental and social terms remains to be examined. We compare two public parks i…
Exploring the Links between Immigration, Ageing and Domestic Water Consumption
March H., Perarnau J. and Saur D. Exploring the links between immigration, ageing and domestic water consumption: the case of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Regional Studies . Mediterranean urban environments are increasingly undergoing structural or temporary episodes of water stress, which may lead to decreases in the use of water. Taking the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB) as a case study, this paper argues that socio-demographic fac…
Changing geographies of water-related consumption
Swimming pools constitute an important part of the expanding suburban landscapes of many cities of southern Europe. Yet we know relatively little about their characteristics and especially about whether or not they capture a substantial part of urban water for the benefit of a few that could be used for other more essential tasks, especially in periods of scarcity. In this paper, taking the metropolitan region of Barcelona as a case study, we est…
Urban sprawl pattern and land-use change detection in Yazd, Iran
Servicing Customers in Revolutionary Times
Debates on the total or partial privatization of water usually follow the rationale that efficient and rational management is best left to the private sphere. In this paper and using a historical example, we attempt to assess critically this assumption arguing that efficiency and rationality in resource management are and have been an asset of collective management as well. We present the case of the Barcelona Water Company, run by its workers du…
Contesting large-scale water supply projects at both ends of the pipe in Kathmandu and Melamchi Valleys, Nepal
Atlantic Gardens in Mediterranean Climates
While the city of Barcelona is being held up worldwide as an example of a compact and sustainable urban settlement, its metropolitan region has been suburbanized with low-density housing that, among other impacts, threatens the water supply system of the area. In this process of urbanization new landscapes of consumption - greening the city with non-native natures - have been produced, requiring a higher use of water and other inputs. Starting wi…
The Unintended Consequences of Ecological Modernization
In the context of the European debt crisis, neoliberal reforms question the legitimacy of the state in the direct provision of basic services. Water governance mirrors such issues. In Metropolitan Barcelona (northeast Spain) the water cycle is being redrawn with the leasing to private hands of the regional public bulk water supplier. The unbearable debt accumulated by the Catalan Water Agency is used as the discursive justification of the 'inevit…
Ornamental plants and the production of nature(s) in the Spanish real estate boom and bust
The Spanish real estate boom and bust of the 2000s caused immense economic, social, and environmental changes across the country. Massive urbanization, however, does not necessarily entail the end of nature and natural processes, instead marking a radical transformation of environments and societies. Through a political ecology approach, we analyze how ornamental species have become a fundamental part of new natures induced by urbanization in the…
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