From vineyards to feedlots: a fund-flow scanning of sociometabolic transition in the Vallès County (Catalonia) 1860–1956–1999
Authors:
- Inés Marco (Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
- Roc Padró (Institut Metròpoli)
- Claudio Cattaneo (Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
- Jonathan Caravaca (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Enric Tello (Universitat de Barcelona)
 
Publication date: 2017
Thies article analyses the changes to agricultural metabolism in four municipalities of Vallès County (Catalonia, Iberia) by accounting for their agroecosystem funds and flows during the socioecological transition from organic to industrial farming between the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The choice of three different stages in this transition allows us to observe the transformation of its funds and flows over time, the links established between them and the effect on their energy profiles.
Academic article link:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1172-y