Описание: Introduction
Chapter 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
Chapter 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 Spains agricultural production 2.6 Spanish livestock in the twentieth century
2.7 Livestock production
2.8 An overview of Spanish agriculture industrialization
Chapter 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)
Chapter 4. Decreasing income and reproductive problemsof the agricultural population
Introduction
4.1. The agricultural population during the first half of the twentieth century
4.2 An estimate of the agricultural sectors macromagnitudes (1950-2008) 1
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 and coverage of household expenditure
4.7 Conclusions
Chapter 5. Environmental Impacts of Spanish Agricultures 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
Chapter 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
Annex 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
Annex 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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