Given that agriculture is one of the activities with highest anthropic intervention on ecosystems, this paper focuses on the importance of aligning food production toward …
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 …
What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four" grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics …
Ecological economics is largely about the 'substantive'(in 'kind') study of the economy, as opposed to a purely 'formal'economic analysis (in 'money'). Following Kapp, Polanyi and …
Ecosystem services (ES) assessments commonly focus on a specific biophysical region or nation and take its geographic borders as the system boundary. Most geographical regions …
S Harchaoui, P Chatzimpiros - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article addresses agricultural metabolism and transitions for energy, nitrogen, farm production, self‐sufficiency, and surplus from historical data since the nineteenth century. It …
J Le Noë, G Billen, F Esculier, J Garnier - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a quantitative description of the N and P flows characterizing the agro-food system metabolism of 33 agricultural regions in France and their time evolution since the …
Mechanization of agriculture drastically increases labour productivity in crop production, playing a major role in industrialization by freeing up workforce for industry and services …
In recent decades, there has been growing concern regarding worsening global climate conditions for agricultural production, especially in Mediterranean climate and other semi …