The main motivation of this dissertation is to add the environmental dimension to the Economic History of the changes in agriculture in Catalonia since the late 19th century. According to this, we speak in terms of Socio-Ecological Transition instead of agrarian development, which considers only the variable of productivity. That allows us to focus in fertility (first and second waves of the transition) and in a last step, in the use of fossil fuels (direct and indirect) in agriculture (third wave). Therefore, this thesis seeks to bring to light the ways followed by Mediterranean organic agricultures to overcome its yield ceilings (not necessary Malthusian ceilings) in order to be adapted to the structural changes of the eco...
From the analytical perspective of the social metabolism, this article analyses and compares the gro...
Agrarian metabolism applies the social metabolism framework to agriculture. It focuses on the study ...
Altres ajuts: SSHRC/ 895-2011-1020The paper analyses how between 1956 and 2009 the agrarian metaboli...
How did farmers maintain soil fertility as they cultivated the same land over decades and centuries?...
ith the spread of the Green Revolution from the mid-20th century, large part of the agricultural sys...
This PhD dissertation is part of an international research project, Sustainable Farm Systems, which ...
We analyse the changes to agricultural metabolism in four municipalities of Vallès County (Catalonia...
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to...
This paper shows the potential of the Social Metabolism approach to study the industrialization of t...
Using several energy returns on investment indicators (multi-EROI), this article analyses the socioe...
The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful wa...
For a large extent of historiography, the history of Spanish agriculture during the twentieth centur...
The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful wa...
This article analyses the functioning of agricultural systems based on organic energy in contrast wi...
This paper examines the economic motivations, and the economic and biophysical effects, of the adopt...
From the analytical perspective of the social metabolism, this article analyses and compares the gro...
Agrarian metabolism applies the social metabolism framework to agriculture. It focuses on the study ...
Altres ajuts: SSHRC/ 895-2011-1020The paper analyses how between 1956 and 2009 the agrarian metaboli...
How did farmers maintain soil fertility as they cultivated the same land over decades and centuries?...
ith the spread of the Green Revolution from the mid-20th century, large part of the agricultural sys...
This PhD dissertation is part of an international research project, Sustainable Farm Systems, which ...
We analyse the changes to agricultural metabolism in four municipalities of Vallès County (Catalonia...
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to...
This paper shows the potential of the Social Metabolism approach to study the industrialization of t...
Using several energy returns on investment indicators (multi-EROI), this article analyses the socioe...
The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful wa...
For a large extent of historiography, the history of Spanish agriculture during the twentieth centur...
The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful wa...
This article analyses the functioning of agricultural systems based on organic energy in contrast wi...
This paper examines the economic motivations, and the economic and biophysical effects, of the adopt...
From the analytical perspective of the social metabolism, this article analyses and compares the gro...
Agrarian metabolism applies the social metabolism framework to agriculture. It focuses on the study ...
Altres ajuts: SSHRC/ 895-2011-1020The paper analyses how between 1956 and 2009 the agrarian metaboli...