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Title: | Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009 |
Author: | Cattaneo, Claudio Marull, Joan Tello, Enric |
Keywords: | Ecologia agrícola Biologia econòmica Energies renovables Barcelona (Catalunya : Àrea metropolitana) Agricultural ecology Economic biology Renewable energy sources Barcelona (Catalonia : Metropolitan area) |
Issue Date: | Dec-2018 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | The paper analyses how between 1956 and 2009 the agrarian metabolism of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has become less functional, losing circularity in biomass flows and in relationship to its landscape. We do so by adopting a Multi-Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and flow-fund (MuSIASEM) analyses and the nexus with landscape functional structure. The study of agricultural flows of Final Produce, Biomass Reused and External Inputs is integrated with that of land use, livestock, power capacity, and population changes between 1956 (at the beginning of agrarian industrialization) and 2009 (fully industrialized agriculture). A multi-scale analysis is conducted at the landscape scale (seven counties within the Barcelona metropolitan region) as well as for the functions deployed, within an agroecosystem, by the mutual interactions between its funds (landscape, land-uses, livestock, and farming population). A complex nexus between land, livestock, dietary patterns, and energy needs is shown; we conclude that, from the perspective of the circular bioeconomy the agrarian sector has gone worse hand in hand with the landscape functional structure. Therefore, a novel perspective in landscape agroecology is opened. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124722 |
It is part of: | Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10(12), num. 4722, p. 1-25 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/126951 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124722 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial) |
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