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Understanding Agricultural Change: Integrated analysis of societal metabolism at different scales PhD Thesis
Ramos, Nancy Guadalupe Arizpe
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Agricultural change, Multiscale analysis, Societal metabolismism
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title = {Understanding Agricultural Change: Integrated analysis of societal metabolism at different scales},
author = {Nancy Guadalupe Arizpe Ramos},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117594 https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/117594},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-11-01},
pages = {274},
school = {Universitat Aut\`{o}noma de Barcelona},
abstract = {The industrialization of rural systems and integration into international markets are commonly proposed as rural development strategies in the South. Technologized agriculture has driven changes in land use and human activity. These changes generate severe negative impacts (socio-cultural, ecological, and biophysical) associated with malnutrition, migration, poverty, and lack of food among others. In addition, it also induces changes in monetary flows and energy inputs, such as machinery, oil products, fertilizers and genetically modified seeds, which result also in negative social and environmental impacts. In this sense, and in order to address concepts such as food security and sustainable agriculture, it is essential to focus on the restrictions that the requirement of land, soil, water and other natural resources impose on the possibility of generating an adequate food supply. Therefore, it is important to visualize the trends of technical progress in agriculture at a global level in order to be able to contextualize the discussion of alternative techniques in agricultural production and rural development. The inspiration of this thesis is the complexity of the crisis in the agricultural sector in developed and developing countries while its principal purpose is to contribute in the understanding of environmental and socio-economic issues involved in agricultural changes. The research considers both empirical analysis and field work through the integration of different theoretical frameworks and methodologies such as the analysis of time and land use (Land Time Budget Analysis - LTBA), characterization of typologies in the context of societal metabolism, and multi-scale analysis. The Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) framework is applied from a local scale, through a community to a regional one. This allows grasping the biophysical drivers that induce conflict in the study areas. Finally, the research is completed with an analysis of the decision making processes found in the study cases.},
keywords = {Agricultural change, Multiscale analysis, Societal metabolismism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {phdthesis}
}
The industrialization of rural systems and integration into international markets are commonly proposed as rural development strategies in the South. Technologized agriculture has driven changes in land use and human activity. These changes generate severe negative impacts (socio-cultural, ecological, and biophysical) associated with malnutrition, migration, poverty, and lack of food among others. In addition, it also induces changes in monetary flows and energy inputs, such as machinery, oil products, fertilizers and genetically modified seeds, which result also in negative social and environmental impacts. In this sense, and in order to address concepts such as food security and sustainable agriculture, it is essential to focus on the restrictions that the requirement of land, soil, water and other natural resources impose on the possibility of generating an adequate food supply. Therefore, it is important to visualize the trends of technical progress in agriculture at a global level in order to be able to contextualize the discussion of alternative techniques in agricultural production and rural development. The inspiration of this thesis is the complexity of the crisis in the agricultural sector in developed and developing countries while its principal purpose is to contribute in the understanding of environmental and socio-economic issues involved in agricultural changes. The research considers both empirical analysis and field work through the integration of different theoretical frameworks and methodologies such as the analysis of time and land use (Land Time Budget Analysis - LTBA), characterization of typologies in the context of societal metabolism, and multi-scale analysis. The Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) framework is applied from a local scale, through a community to a regional one. This allows grasping the biophysical drivers that induce conflict in the study areas. Finally, the research is completed with an analysis of the decision making processes found in the study cases.
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