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

• Superior document: Environmental History Series ; v.10
• Author: González de Molina, Manuel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Soto Fernández, David.; Guzmán Casado, Gloria.; Infante-Amate, Juan.; Aguilera Fernández, Eduardo.; Vila Traver, Jaime.; García Ruiz, Roberto.; González de Molina, Manuel.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; {copy}2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)

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.