Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial
Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the
Barcelona Region, 1956-2009

J 2018

Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009

CATTANEO, Claudio, Joan MARULL and Enric TELLO

Basic information

Original name

Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009

Authors

CATTANEO, Claudio (380 Italy, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Joan MARULL (724 Spain) and Enric TELLO (724 Spain)

Edition

Sustainability, Basel, MDPI, 2018, 2071-1050

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50704 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

open access

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.592

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/18:00106848

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124722

UT WoS

000455338100388

Keywords in English

landscape agroecology; MuSIASEM; Multi-EROI; circular bioeconomy; Barcelona Metropolitan Region; industrial agriculture

Abstract

V originále

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.

Citovat

CATTANEO, Claudio, Joan MARULL and Enric TELLO. Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009. Sustainability. Basel: MDPI, 2018, vol. 10, No 12, p. 1-22. ISSN 2071-1050. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124722.

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CATTANEO, Claudio, Joan MARULL and Enric TELLO. Landscape Agroecology. The Dysfunctionalities of Industrial Agriculture and the Loss of the Circular Bioeconomy in the Barcelona Region, 1956-2009. \textit{Sustainability}. Basel: MDPI, 2018, vol.~10, No~12, p.~1-22. ISSN~2071-1050. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124722.

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