Energetic assessment of the agricultural production system. A review

J Hercher-Pasteur, E Loiseau, C Sinfort… - Agronomy for Sustainable …, 2020 - Springer
Energy holds a key role in farm systems. Cultivation is based on the conversion of solar
energy into biomass of interest. Fossil energy allows mechanized and high-yield agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] Sociometabolic research in Latin America: A review on advances and knowledge gaps in agroecological trends and rural perspectives

MJ LaRota-Aguilera, OL Delgadillo-Vargas, E Tello - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Current agricultural systems have reached a critical transition point in their biophysical
performance, social and environmental impacts, and energy patterns. The theoretical …

New geographical directions for food systems governance research

C Yap - Progress in Human Geography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Food systems governance has emerged as a distinct focus of geographical research.
Researchers and policymakers are increasingly engaging with food systems as complex …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing social-ecological connectivity of agricultural landscapes in Spain: Resilience implications amid agricultural intensification trends and urbanization

KS Zimmerer, YJ Olivencia, LP Rodríguez… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Accelerated intensification/disintensification and urbanization are changing
agricultural systems and propel the need for spatial approaches to understand sustainability …

Modelling land use planning: Socioecological integrated analysis of metropolitan green infrastructures

J Marull, R Padró, MJ La Rota-Aguilera, J Pino… - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Land use planning of global metropolis is essential to meet the socioecological challenges
of the next decades. This paper aims to contribute to sustainable land use policies by …

Modelling the scaling up of sustainable farming into Agroecology Territories: Potentials and bottlenecks at the landscape level in a Mediterranean case study

R Padró, E Tello, I Marco, JR Olarieta, MM Grasa… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is a need for a socioecological transition towards sustainable agri-food systems that
recover the organic functioning and the closure of socio-metabolic cycles at the lower …

Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012

E Tello, V Sacristán, JR Olarieta, C Cattaneo… - Agronomy for …, 2023 - Springer
Early energy analyses of agriculture revealed that behind higher labor and land productivity
of industrial farming, there was a decrease in energy returns on energy (EROI) invested, in …

Assessing the sustainability of contrasting land use scenarios through the Socioecological Integrated Analysis (SIA) of the metropolitan green infrastructure in …

R Padró, MJ La Rota-Aguilera, A Giocoli… - Landscape and Urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban development and the sprawl of transport infrastructures have disregarded the crucial
function of metropolitan landscape in provisioning human well-being and biodiversity. This …

From vineyards to feedlots: a fund-flow scanning of sociometabolic transition in the Vallès County (Catalonia) 1860–1956–1999

I Marco, R Padró, C Cattaneo, J Caravaca… - Regional Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
We analyse the changes to agricultural metabolism in four municipalities of Vallès County
(Catalonia, Iberia) by accounting for their agroecosystem funds and flows during the …

Landscape agroecology. The dysfunctionalities of industrial agriculture and the loss of the circular bioeconomy in the Barcelona region, 1956–2009

C Cattaneo, J Marull, E Tello - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …