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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900-2008 : The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: González de Molina, Manuel.
Other Authors: Soto Fernández, David., Guzmán Casado, Gloria., Infante-Amate, Juan., Aguilera Fernández, Eduardo., Vila Traver, Jaime., García Ruiz, Roberto.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Environmental History Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Contents
  • 1 Agrarian Metabolism: The Metabolic Approach Applied to Agriculture
  • 1.1 Agriculture and Social Metabolism: The Metabolism of Agroecosystems
  • 1.2 Funds and Flows in Agrarian Metabolism
  • 1.3 The Appropriation of Biomass and Colonization of the Territory. Biophysical Funds (Land and Livestock)
  • 1.4 Social Fund Elements (Human Work and Technical Means of Production)
  • 1.5 The Organization and Dynamics of Agrarian Metabolism
  • 1.6 The Forces of Change
  • 1.7 Sources and Methods
  • 1.7.1 The Specificities of Agrarian Matabolism
  • 1.7.2 Scale and Bounderies of the Study
  • 1.7.3 Sources of Information
  • References
  • 2 Agricultural Output: From Crop Specialization to Livestocking, 1900-2008
  • 2.1 Traditional Historiographical Narrative of Agricultural Transformations During the Twentieth Century
  • 2.2 The Evolution of Land Uses
  • 2.3 Evolution of Actual Net primary Productivity
  • 2.4 Evolution of Domestic Extraction
  • 2.5 The Specialization of Spain's Agricultural Production
  • 2.6 Spanish Livestock in the Twentieth Century
  • 2.7 Livestock Production
  • 2.8 An Overview of Spanish Agriculture Industrialization
  • References
  • 3 Agricultural Inputs and Their Energy Costs 1900-2010
  • 3.1 Comments on Methodology
  • 3.2 Mechanical Traction
  • 3.2.1 Machinery
  • 3.2.2 Fuels
  • 3.3 Irrigation
  • 3.3.1 Irrigation Systems
  • 3.3.2 Installed Mechanical Power
  • 3.3.3 Fuels
  • 3.3.4 Electricity
  • 3.4 Fertilizers
  • 3.5 Crop Protection
  • 3.5.1 Pesticides
  • 3.5.2 Greenhouses
  • 3.6 Use of Inputs in the Agricultural Sector (Imports)
  • References
  • 4 Decreasing Income and Reproductive Problems of the Agricultural Population
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Agricultural Population During the First Half of the Twentieth Century.
  • 4.3 An Estimate of the Agricultural Sector's Macromagnitudes (1950-2008)
  • 4.4 The Agricultural Population and Changing Living Standards
  • 4.5 The State of the Agricultural Population
  • 4.6 Changes in Farm Structures
  • 4.7 Breakdown of Agricultural Income and Coverage of Household Expenditure
  • 4.8 Conclusions
  • References
  • 5 Environmental Impacts of Spanish Agriculture's Industrialization
  • 5.1 Functioning of the Agroecosystem
  • 5.2 The Energy Efficiency of Agricultural Production
  • 5.3 State of the Components of the Land Fund Element
  • 5.3.1 Soil
  • 5.3.2 Replacement of Organic Carbon
  • 5.3.3 Biodiversity
  • 5.4 A Diet Rich in Food of Animal Origin: The Outsourcing of Its Land Costs
  • References
  • 6 The Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture
  • 6.1 The Agrarian Sector in the Metabolism of the Spanish Economy
  • 6.2 Foreign Trade and Domestic Consumption of Biomass
  • 6.3 The Main Indicators of Agrarian Metabolism
  • 6.4 The Pace of Intensification and Specialization (I + S)
  • 6.5 The Drivers of I + S
  • 6.5.1 Supply Side Drivers of I + S
  • 6.5.2 Demand Side Drivers of I + S
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • I Calculation of the Physical Production Series of Spanish Agriculture
  • A.1.1 Sources and Methodological Decisions to Calculate the Domestic Extraction of Vegetal Biomass
  • A.1.2 The Reliability of Livestock Censuses
  • A.1.3 Adjusting Spanish Livestock in the First Third of the Twentieth Century
  • I.1 References
  • II Historical Evolution of the Spanish Agrarian Metabolism and the Spanish Economy Metabolism
  • A.2.1 Historical Evolution of the Spanish Agrarian Metabolism
  • A.2.2 Historical Evolution of Spanish Economy Metabolism.

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