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

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

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This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative t...

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Main Authors: González de Molina, Manuel (Author), Soto Fernández, David (Author), Guzmán Casado, Gloria (Author), Infante-Amate, Juan (Author), Aguilera Fernández, Eduardo (Author), Vila Traver, Jaime (Author), García Ruiz, Roberto (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Environmental History, 10
Subjects:
Agriculture.
Environment.
History.
Environmental economics.
Economics > History.
Environmental Sciences.
Environmental Economics.
History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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 AM
  • 1.7.2. Scale and delimitations of the study
  • 1.7.3. Sources of information
  • 2. Intensification and Specialization: from Agricultureto Livestocking, 1900-2008
  • 2.1. Traditional historiographical accounts of agricultural transformations during the twentieth century
  • 2.2. The evolution of land uses
  • 2.3. Evolution of real 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
  • 3. Agricultural inputs and their energy costs 1900-2010
  • 3.1. Comments on methodology
  • 3.2. Traction
  • 3.2.1 Mechanical traction
  • 3.2.2. Combustibles
  • 3.3. Irrigation
  • 3.3.1. Irrigation systems
  • 3.3.2. Installed mechanical power
  • 3.3.3. Combustibles
  • 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)
  • 4. Decreasing income and reproductive problems of the agricultural population
  • Introduction
  • 4.1. The agricultural population during the first half of the twentieth century
  • 4.2. An estimate of the agricultural sector's macromagnitudes (1950-2008)
  • 4.3. The agricultural population and changing living standards
  • 4.4. The state of the agriculturalpopulation
  • 4.5. Changes in farm structures
  • 4.6. Breakdown of agricultural income andcoverage of household expenditure
  • 4.7. Conclusions
  • 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
  • 5.4. A diet rich in food of animal origin: the outsourcing of its land costs
  • 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
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 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
  • Appendix 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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