All Stories

  1. Introduction

    Article • March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  2. The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization

    Article • March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  3. ‘Implementation of bio…what?’ Farm workers’ subjectivities in Spanish dairy cattle farms through an ethnographic approach

    Article • Preventive Veterinary Medicine, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  4. Engaging Communities in Energy Transitions: A Study on Attitudes Towards Sustainable Heating Technologies and the Role of Peer Effects in Southern Chile

    Article • Sustainability, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Josep Espluga

  5. Collective sustainability competences of universities as a nested institutional space

    Article • Higher Education Quarterly, June 2024, Wiley

    Dr Josep Espluga

  6. Public debate on bovine tuberculosis eradication: Topics and metaphors in the trans-Pyrenees region (Spain and France) 2018–2020

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  7. Improving the communication between farmers and veterinarians to enhance the acceptability of bovine tuberculosis eradication programmes

    Article • Preventive Veterinary Medicine, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  8. Social inequalities in the making sense of climate change narratives

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, October 2023, Intellect

    Dr Josep Espluga

  9. Towards a Politics of Recognition: Exploring the Symbolic Contexts of Material Agroecological Transitions

    Article • Sustainability, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Josep Espluga

  10. Social sciences and nuclear energy practitioners: Exploring Spanish perceptions and expectations of interdisciplinary work in a transdisciplinary world

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  11. The Melancholic Lock: High-Level Radioactive Waste Governance in Spain

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  12. Introduction to the special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: historical and comparative experience from Europe”

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  13. Multi-actor Networks and Innovation Niches: University Training for Local Agroecological Dynamization

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  14. CONOCIMIENTO DE LA DIMENSIÓN SOCIOAMBIENTAL Y CONFLICTOS EN LA GESTIÓN DEL ESPACIO UNIVERSITARIO

    Article • September 2021, Atena Editora

    Dr Josep Espluga

  15. Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north

    Article • Local Environment, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  16. The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  17. Assessing the functional relationship between the formal and informal waste systems: A case-study in Catalonia (Spain)

    Article • Waste Management, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Joan Miquel Verd, Dr Josep Espluga

  18. Local Agri-Food Systems as a Cultural Heritage Strategy to Recover the Sustainability of Local Communities. Insights from the Spanish Case

    Article • Sustainability, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Josep Espluga

  19. Influence on the implementation of biosecurity measures in dairy cattle farms: Communication between veterinarians and dairy farmers

    Article • Preventive Veterinary Medicine, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  20. Profiles of opinions among farmers and veterinarians towards the Tuberculosis Eradication Programme in cattle in Spain

    Article • Preventive Veterinary Medicine, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  21. Dairy farmers’ decision‐making to implement biosecurity measures: A study of psychosocial factors

    Article • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Josep Espluga

  22. Agroecología, conocimiento tradicional e identidades locales para la sostenibilidad y contra el despoblamiento rural

    Article • revista PH, October 2019, Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Historico - IAPH

    Dr Josep Espluga

  23. Are food quality schemes an alternative to the conventional food system?

    Article • June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  24. Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization

    Article • Agriculture and Human Values, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  25. Book Reviews

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, April 2018, Intellect

    Dr Josep Espluga

  26. Las dimensiones sociales de la percepción de la energía nuclear. Un análisis del caso español (1960-2015)

    Article • Revista Internacional de Sociología, December 2017, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr. M.d.Mar Rubio-Varas, Dr Josep Espluga

  27. Farmer and Veterinarian Attitudes towards the Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Programme in Spain: What Is Going on in the Field?

    Article • Frontiers in Veterinary Science, November 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Josep Espluga

  28. Social farming in Catalonia: Rural local development, employment opportunities and empowerment for people at risk of social exclusion

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  29. PACHELBEL/STAVE

    Article • September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  30. Hybrid Focus Groups as a Means to Investigate Practical Reasoning, Learning Processes and Indigenous Activities

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  31. López García, Daniel (2015). Producir alimentos, reproducir comunidad. Redes alimentarias alternativas como formas económicas para la transformación social y ecológica

    Article • Documents d Anàlisi Geogràfica, September 2016, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

    Dr Josep Espluga

  32. How to address citizens' practices and policies on sustainability? A consultative tool for brokering policy-related knowledge between the worlds of policymaking and everyday citizens' life

    Article • Evidence & Policy, August 2016, Policy Press

    Dr Josep Espluga, Ana Prades

  33. A investigação dos riscos tecnológicos na sociologia anglo-saxônica

    Article • Novos Cadernos NAEA, December 2015, Nucleo de Altos Estudos Amazonicos

    Dr Josep Espluga

  34. Introducción

    Article • Papers Revista de Sociologia, October 2015, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

    Dr Josep Espluga

  35. Riesgos tecnológicos, conflictos sociales y políticas ambientales. Del estudio de las percepciones a la implicación pública

    Article • Papers Revista de Sociologia, October 2015, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

    Dr Josep Espluga

  36. Diseño de políticas de sostenibilidad y prácticas ciudadanas. El caso del comercio y las agendas 21 locales

    Article • Papers Revista de Sociologia, October 2015, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

    Dr Josep Espluga

  37. The Strengths and Weaknesses of Deliberation on River Basin Management Planning: Analysing the water framework directive implementation in Catalonia (Spain)

    Article • Environmental Policy and Governance, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Marc Pares, Dr Josep Espluga

  38. Entre consommation durable et vie quotidienne

    Article • January 2015, OpenEdition

    Dr Josep Espluga

  39. The Transformative Agrifood Movement in Catalonia: Operational Divergences in the Construction of Food Sovereignty

    Article • December 2014, Emerald

    Dr Josep Espluga

  40. Gobernanza deliberativa en la gestión de cuencas hidrográficas: analizando las consecuencias de la Directiva Marco del Agua en Cataluña

    Article • Investigaciones Geográficas, January 2014, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante

    Dr Marc Pares, Dr Josep Espluga

  41. Factores que inhiben la movilización social: el caso del área petroquímica de Tarragona / Factors Inhibiting the Social Mobilization: The Case of the Petrochemical Area of Tarragona

    Article • Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, January 2014, Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas

    Dr Josep Espluga

  42. Citizenship participation in water management plans in the Doce River Basin, Brazil and Catalonia, Spain

    Article • Water Policy, October 2013, IWA Publishing

    Dr Josep Espluga

  43. A qualitative study of users' engagement with real-time feedback from in-house energy consumption displays

    Article • Energy Policy, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Josep Espluga

  44. Evaluación de riesgos en sistemas agrícolas asociados a la utilización de plaguicidas en el Municipio de Kukra Hill, Nicaragua, Centroamérica

    Article • Nexo Revista Científica, July 2013, Latin America Journals Online

    Dr Josep Espluga

  45. Metabolisms of injustice: municipal solid-waste management and environmental equity in Barcelona's Metropolitan Region

    Article • Local Environment, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Xavier Gabarrell Durany, Dr Josep Espluga

  46. BOOK REVIEWS

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, March 2012, Intellect

    Dr Josep Espluga

  47. Institutional dimensions underlying public trust in information on technological risk

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  48. Participación pública e inercia institucional en la gestión del agua en España

    Article • Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, January 2011, Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas

    Dr Josep Espluga

  49. Communicating at the edge: Risk communication processes and structural conflicts in highly industrialized petrochemical areas

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, November 2010, Intellect

    Dr Josep Espluga

  50. Investigating the degree of “stigma” associated with nuclear energy technologies: A cross-cultural examination of the case of fusion power

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Josep Espluga

  51. The siting of a research centre on clean coal combustion and CO2capture in Spain: Some notes on the relationship between trust and lack of public information

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Josep Espluga

  52. Confianza, incertidumbre y percepción social de las tecnologías avanzadas. Un estudio de caso

    Article • Revista Internacional de Sociología, January 2009, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Josep Espluga

  53. Job insecurity and successful re-employment: Examples from Spain

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  54. Dimensiones sociales de los riesgos tecnológicos: el caso de las antenas de telefonía móvil

    Article • Papers Revista de Sociologia, October 2006, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

    Dr Josep Espluga

  55. Precautionary local politics and coping with risks of radiofrequency fields in Spain

    Article • International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, January 2005, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Josep Espluga

  56. Conflictes socioambientals i estudi de la percepció social del risc

    Article • Papers Revista de Sociologia, January 2004, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

    Dr Josep Espluga

  57. Empirical analysis of the risk of social exclusion of long-term unemployed young people in Spain

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  58. Youth Unemployment and Health in Spain

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  59. Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Spain

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Josep Espluga

  60. PACHELBEL/STAVE: Shining a light on citizens‘ everyday environment-related behaviours

    Article • GSE Research Limited

    Dr Josep Espluga