Format:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783030209001
Series Statement:
Environmental History Series v.10
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030208998
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030208998
Language:
English
