The modernization of agriculture under tough environmental constraints. One hundred years of Aragonese agricultural production,1885-1985

Pinilla, Vicente; Clar, Ernesto

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“…Combined with improvements in the physical infrastructure, including bigger irrigation works, and with new equipment and mechanization, these advances could push up physical outputs even in very difficult environments, as in Aragon, a very dry and mostly mountainous area, and already at an early date. There, physical output and output per hectare were substantially increased in the period 1880-1920, although capital investments -and therefore output -declined again in the subsequent decades, as a result of the decline in prices and profitability of agriculture (Pinilla & Clar, 2011). This case shows that, although rises in output were general, the chronology per region differs and the development was not always an unilinear one.…”

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1. Rural history and the environment. A survey of the relationship between property rights, social structures and sustainability of land use

Bavel¹,

Thoen²

2013

Rural Societies and Environments at Risk

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Rural history and the environment A survey of the relationship between property rights, social structures and sustainability of land useBas VAN BAVEL and Erik THOEN I. The environmental branch of rural historyIn recent decades, scientific interest in the interaction between people and the environment has been growing, not least because of acute environmental problems.Besides the research into the present interaction, this has also fostered research into its historical dimension and has given rise to a new academic strand. Environmental history emerged as a separate discipline from the late 1960s and interest in it continues to grow (McNeill, 2003: 15-21 sociology. This prevents environmental history from becoming more "scientific" and relevant, and is perhaps one of the reasons why the field has been less active and important than might have been expected. Similar problems apply to the now popular field of disaster studies. These to a large extent also deal with the relationship between humans and the environment, but focus more on the extreme events, where hazards or disasters threaten or strike societies (e.g. Blaikie, 1997;Bankoff, 2003). Natural hazards can result from exceptional events, including volcanic eruptions or earthquakes, but also from more common threats like floods. However, threats can also result from increasing tensions between humans and the use of natural resources, as is the case with erosion, for instance. Further, events which at first sight are exceptional and exogenous, like an earthquake, can have a highly diverse impact, a diversity directly linked with the ways in which humans have used the environment where the earthquake takes place and the tensions and risks inherent in this use.Economists and geographers increasingly suggest that wealth, knowledge and technology in themselves do not determine the diversity of impacts. Instead, it is rather the institutional framework that guarantees the use of this wealth, knowledge and technology in a way that makes (or does not make) a long-run contribution to a society's resilience (pioneering work by Ostrom, 1990). Sociologists, within the new sub-fields of disaster sociology and environmental sociology, and scholars in development studies, have even more clearly entered this line of thinking and have come to study disasters more as social rather than physical-natural occurrences, reflecting the institutional organization and inequalities inherent in society (Tierney, 2007; an early example: Blaikie et al., 1997). Some societies therefore are more vulnerable than others, and the investigation of this vulnerability poses questions similar to those posed in the field of environmental history more generally.However, in dealing with the topic of historical hazards and disasters, historians have again restricted themselves mainly to a descriptive approach, concentrating on reconstructing the events and their direct effects. And although the history of disasters

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1. Rural history and the environment. A survey of the relationship between property rights, social structures and sustainability of land use

Bavel¹,

Thoen²

2013

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Double concentration explaining the outstanding increase in Spanish crop production

Martín-Retortillo

Serrano

Cazcarro

2020

Span. j. agric. res.

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Aim of study: Evaluate the changes in Spanish agricultural production since 1950s in a context of intense transformations in terms of the regional and crop composition.Area of study: Spanish provinces during the second half of the twentieth century.Material and methods: We use index decomposition analysis to evaluate the changes in the value and volume of crop production, as well as the role of product composition and the regional distribution of production.Main results: Spanish agriculture have focused on certain regions in the south or in the east of Spain. Some products like vegetables or fruits have a positive prices and composition effects, encouraging the production in these provinces.Research highlights: We found a ‘double concentration’: Spanish agriculture has increasingly tended to produce high value-added products, such as vegetables, fruit and olive oil. On the other hand, crop production is concentrated in the southern and eastern provinces of Spain.

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The modernization of agriculture under tough environmental constraints. One hundred years of Aragonese agricultural production,1885-1985

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1. Rural history and the environment. A survey of the relationship between property rights, social structures and sustainability of land use

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Double concentration explaining the outstanding increase in Spanish crop production

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