Juan Infante-Amate
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 194259 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Juan Infante-Amate |
| NOMBRES | Juan |
| APELLIDO | Infante-Amate |
| FIRMA | INFANTE-AMATE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Pablo de Olavide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1446-7181 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The climate cost of lateness
Industry accounts for ~ 34% of global CO2 emissions, positioning it as the largest single contributor to anthropogenic climate change. Understanding the historical trajectory is essential for effective mitigation, yet most analyses are short-term and long-term studies rarely examine industry. This article reconstructs consistent long-run series of industrial CO2 emissions in Spain from 1890 to 2021, disaggregated by source (direct, indirect, and …
The shadow of tropical agriculture
Agrarian transformations in tropical regions, driven by fossil-fuel inputs and export-oriented specialization, have caused significant ecological and climatic challenges. Assessing the historical and current patterns of these systems is essential for understanding global biomass production dynamics and addressing their impacts. This study employs long-term agroecological energy analysis (AEA) to examine the efficiency and sustainability of biomas…
The history of a + 3 °C future
Global & regional analysis of all GHG drivers (1820–2050) • Economic growth (+81Gt) overwhelmed efficiency gains (−31Gt) • Carbon intensity must immediately fall 3 × faster (−2.25 %/yr) to 2050. • Regional drivers: population vs affluence patterns vary sharply. • Reveals unprecedented gap between trends and climate needs. Identifying the socio-economic drivers behind greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to design mitigation policies. Existing stud…
What counts as rural? Evidence from Southern Spain, 1787–2017
The demographic decline of the rural world is usually seen as solid evidence of long-run economic and social development. Its correlate, urbanization, plays a key role in studies of comparative development. And yet, this is often founded on shaky empirical grounds: what exactly counted as rural in the past(s)? We compare the many thresholds used by historians to define the rural/urban boundary and, through the case of modern southern Spain, show …
Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (southern Spain, 1787–2019)
In modern societies, changes in population patterns are often studied based on a rural vs urban duality. This dichotomous simplification overlooks the existence of a broad range of human settlements, especially in the rural world. In this work, we quantified and analysed southern Spain’s population and rural settlements from the late eighteenth century to the present, distinguishing three types of settlements: agrotowns, the villages and disperse…
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years
We examine decoupling between augmented human development index and greenhouse gas emissions since 1870. • Wellbeing-growth decoupling is more common in low-income countries, while growth-impact decoupling is more common in higher income countries. • Growth-impact decoupling, i.e., ‘green growth’, is not new nor exclusively Western, and has proved reversible. • No world region has reached a ‘safe and just operating space’ at any point in the last…
Beyond fossil fuels
One of the main challenges facing our society is to decouple levels of well-being from environmental impacts, particularly greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe). Historical knowledge can provide crucial information on the feasibility of achieving this goal. However, very few studies have evaluated the interactions between GHGe and gross domestic product (GDP) or well-being indicators in the long term. So far this literature has only considered CO2 emis…
Fertilization strategies for abating N pollution at the scale of a highly vulnerable and diverse semi-arid agricultural region (Murcia, Spain)
Overuse of N fertilizers in crops has induced the disruption of the N cycle, triggering the release of reactive N (Nr) to the environment. Several EU policies have been developed to address this challenge, establishing targets to reduce agricultural Nr losses. Their achievement could be materialized through the introduction of fertilizing innovations such as incorporating fertilizer into soils, using urease inhibitors, or by adjusting N inputs to…
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860-2010)
Land-use change was the main source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions until the mid-twentieth century, especially due to deforestation processes. In recent decades, however, CO2 sequestration is being induced in some countries where forest area is experiencing net increases. Despite the key role of these processes, we hardly dispose of any empirical evidence of historical changes in biomass stocks, especially in the long-term (over 50 years) and in …
The open veins of Latin America
Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent's economies are net exporters of low-value, primary products and importers of manufactured goods at a high price. This pattern of specialised trade has highly negative consequences for economic development, the environment, and the local population’s wellbeing. Yet to date, little empirical evidence has been collected on Latin America’s to…
From woodfuel to industrial wood
Long-term trajectories of the C footprint of N fertilization in Mediterranean agriculture (Spain, 1860–2018)
Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilization has helped boost agricultural yields, but it is also responsible for direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Fertilizer-related emissions are also promoted by irrigation and manure application, which has increased with livestock industrialization. Spanish agriculture provides a paradigmatic example of high industrialization under two different climates (temperate and Mediterranean) and two contrast…
Una Aproximación Biofísica a la Industrialización de la Agricultura Española desde la Historia Aplicada
This paper presents the findings of two research studies carried out over several years on the evolution of Spanish agriculture and the change it has undergone towards an industrialized agricultural model. The first research project attempted to analyze the changes that have taken place since the beginning of the 20th century from a biophysical point of view, using the methodology of social metabolism applied to the specificity of agriculture and…
Las Venas Abiertas De América Latina en La Era Del Antropoceno
Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent’s economies are low-value, primary-product net exporters while they import manufactured goods at a high price. There is a general agreement among researchers from various fields that this pattern of specialize trade has very negative implications for economic development, the environment, and the local population wellbeing. Yet, there is l…
Unequal raw material exchange between and within countries
Fats of the Land
Juan Infante-Amate, Brandon Luedtke, Joshua MacFadyen, Jonathan Robins, Kate Stevens, Fats of the Land: New Histories of Agricultural Oils, Agricultural History, Vol. 93, No. 3, African American Women in Agriculture during the Jim Crow Era (Summer 2019), pp. 520-546
Continuity, change, and geographical differences in Spain’s firewood consumption
Although firewood was the main energy source until recently in most parts of the world, our understanding of its consumption levels is still quite limited, even in regard to recent periods. The powerful impact of fossil energy carriers and their major effects on global ecology, economy and society have led us to underestimate the role firewood has continued to play during the energy transition. This article offers a new reconstruction of long-ter…
Trade, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Colonial Legacy
Land embodied in Spain’s biomass trade and consumption (1900–2008)
The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008)
Guzmán, G. I., E. Aguilera, R. García-Ruiz, E. Torremocha, D. Soto-Fernández, J. Infante-Amate, and M. González de Molina. 2018. The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008). Ecology and Society 23(1):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09773-230102
Impact of historical land use and soil management change on soil erosion and agricultural sustainability during the Anthropocene
The social metabolism of biomass in Spain, 1900–2008
The rise and fall of the cortijo system
The Spanish Transition to Industrial Metabolism
The aim of this work is to reconstruct the main economy‐wide/material flow accounting indicators for the Spanish economy between 1860 and 2010. The main results indicate that from 1960 onward, the country saw a very rapid industrial transition based on the domestic extraction of quarry products and the import of fossil fuels and manufactured goods. Direct material consumption rose from 58.7 million tonnes (Mt) in 1860 to 570.2 Mt in 2010. In per …
Nutrient Balances and Management of Soil Fertility Prior to the Arrival of Chemical Fertilizers in Andalusia, Southern Spain
Studies on the role of nutrient balances in the socioecological transition of agriculture are scarce, particularly in the Mediterranean region where manure availability was low. The role of nutrient balance in this transition was evaluated in three representative localities of the inland Mediterranean region of southern Spain from 1750 to 1900. Changes in cropland distribution, population, manure availability and demand, and nutrient balance at c…
The open veins of Latin America
Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent's economies are net exporters of low-value, primary products and importers of manufactured goods at a high price. This pattern of specialised trade has highly negative consequences for economic development, the environment, and the local population’s wellbeing. Yet to date, little empirical evidence has been collected on Latin America’s to…
Trade, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Colonial Legacy
Impact of historical land use and soil management change on soil erosion and agricultural sustainability during the Anthropocene
The rise and fall of the cortijo system
Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (southern Spain, 1787–2019)
In modern societies, changes in population patterns are often studied based on a rural vs urban duality. This dichotomous simplification overlooks the existence of a broad range of human settlements, especially in the rural world. In this work, we quantified and analysed southern Spain’s population and rural settlements from the late eighteenth century to the present, distinguishing three types of settlements: agrotowns, the villages and disperse…
Erosion in the Mediterranean
Despite the key role that soil and its management have played in the sustainability of farming societies, few historical studies have been carried out on erosion and its effects. In Mediterranean agriculture, erosion from olive cultivation is currently one of the region's main environmental problems. This essay develops a case study from southern Spain to quantify soil loss in olive groves over three centuries, using empirical data and model anal…
The Ecology and History of the Mediterranean Olive Grove
This article argues that the landscape dominated by olive groves that is now seen as characteristic of southern Spain is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the eighteenth, nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, olives were not an industrial crop, grown on a large scale for the production of oil. Instead, olive trees were largely grown by small peasant farmers and used to produce timber and fodder as well as foodstuffs, forming one componen…
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years
We examine decoupling between augmented human development index and greenhouse gas emissions since 1870. • Wellbeing-growth decoupling is more common in low-income countries, while growth-impact decoupling is more common in higher income countries. • Growth-impact decoupling, i.e., ‘green growth’, is not new nor exclusively Western, and has proved reversible. • No world region has reached a ‘safe and just operating space’ at any point in the last…
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860-2010)
Land-use change was the main source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions until the mid-twentieth century, especially due to deforestation processes. In recent decades, however, CO2 sequestration is being induced in some countries where forest area is experiencing net increases. Despite the key role of these processes, we hardly dispose of any empirical evidence of historical changes in biomass stocks, especially in the long-term (over 50 years) and in …
Land embodied in Spain’s biomass trade and consumption (1900–2008)
The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008)
Guzmán, G. I., E. Aguilera, R. García-Ruiz, E. Torremocha, D. Soto-Fernández, J. Infante-Amate, and M. González de Molina. 2018. The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008). Ecology and Society 23(1):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09773-230102
From woodfuel to industrial wood
Unequal raw material exchange between and within countries
Continuity, change, and geographical differences in Spain’s firewood consumption
Although firewood was the main energy source until recently in most parts of the world, our understanding of its consumption levels is still quite limited, even in regard to recent periods. The powerful impact of fossil energy carriers and their major effects on global ecology, economy and society have led us to underestimate the role firewood has continued to play during the energy transition. This article offers a new reconstruction of long-ter…
Beyond fossil fuels
One of the main challenges facing our society is to decouple levels of well-being from environmental impacts, particularly greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe). Historical knowledge can provide crucial information on the feasibility of achieving this goal. However, very few studies have evaluated the interactions between GHGe and gross domestic product (GDP) or well-being indicators in the long term. So far this literature has only considered CO2 emis…
Una Aproximación Biofísica a la Industrialización de la Agricultura Española desde la Historia Aplicada
This paper presents the findings of two research studies carried out over several years on the evolution of Spanish agriculture and the change it has undergone towards an industrialized agricultural model. The first research project attempted to analyze the changes that have taken place since the beginning of the 20th century from a biophysical point of view, using the methodology of social metabolism applied to the specificity of agriculture and…
The Ecology and History of the Mediterranean Olive Grove
This article argues that the landscape dominated by olive groves that is now seen as characteristic of southern Spain is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the eighteenth, nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, olives were not an industrial crop, grown on a large scale for the production of oil. Instead, olive trees were largely grown by small peasant farmers and used to produce timber and fodder as well as foodstuffs, forming one componen…
La ordenación del espacio agrario en economías preindustriales. El caso del cultivo del olivo en el sur de España
En las últimas décadas se ha desarrollado una literatura especializada en el estudio de las particulares características de las agriculturas preindustriales. Este trabajo, en base a la citada línea de trabajo, analiza los plantíos de olivar andaluces, que hoy representan la mayor concentración arbórea de Europa, justo en el momento previo a su gran expansión (mediados del siglo XVIII). Intentamos aportar claves que expliquen la geografía de expan…
Erosion in the Mediterranean
Despite the key role that soil and its management have played in the sustainability of farming societies, few historical studies have been carried out on erosion and its effects. In Mediterranean agriculture, erosion from olive cultivation is currently one of the region's main environmental problems. This essay develops a case study from southern Spain to quantify soil loss in olive groves over three centuries, using empirical data and model anal…
The Socio-Ecological Transition on a Crop Scale
The Spanish Transition to Industrial Metabolism
The aim of this work is to reconstruct the main economy‐wide/material flow accounting indicators for the Spanish economy between 1860 and 2010. The main results indicate that from 1960 onward, the country saw a very rapid industrial transition based on the domestic extraction of quarry products and the import of fossil fuels and manufactured goods. Direct material consumption rose from 58.7 million tonnes (Mt) in 1860 to 570.2 Mt in 2010. In per …
Nutrient Balances and Management of Soil Fertility Prior to the Arrival of Chemical Fertilizers in Andalusia, Southern Spain
Studies on the role of nutrient balances in the socioecological transition of agriculture are scarce, particularly in the Mediterranean region where manure availability was low. The role of nutrient balance in this transition was evaluated in three representative localities of the inland Mediterranean region of southern Spain from 1750 to 1900. Changes in cropland distribution, population, manure availability and demand, and nutrient balance at c…
The social metabolism of biomass in Spain, 1900–2008
The rise and fall of the cortijo system
Impact of historical land use and soil management change on soil erosion and agricultural sustainability during the Anthropocene
Continuity, change, and geographical differences in Spain’s firewood consumption
Although firewood was the main energy source until recently in most parts of the world, our understanding of its consumption levels is still quite limited, even in regard to recent periods. The powerful impact of fossil energy carriers and their major effects on global ecology, economy and society have led us to underestimate the role firewood has continued to play during the energy transition. This article offers a new reconstruction of long-ter…
Trade, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Colonial Legacy
Land embodied in Spain’s biomass trade and consumption (1900–2008)
The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008)
Guzmán, G. I., E. Aguilera, R. García-Ruiz, E. Torremocha, D. Soto-Fernández, J. Infante-Amate, and M. González de Molina. 2018. The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008). Ecology and Society 23(1):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09773-230102
Fats of the Land
Juan Infante-Amate, Brandon Luedtke, Joshua MacFadyen, Jonathan Robins, Kate Stevens, Fats of the Land: New Histories of Agricultural Oils, Agricultural History, Vol. 93, No. 3, African American Women in Agriculture during the Jim Crow Era (Summer 2019), pp. 520-546
Las Venas Abiertas De América Latina en La Era Del Antropoceno
Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent’s economies are low-value, primary-product net exporters while they import manufactured goods at a high price. There is a general agreement among researchers from various fields that this pattern of specialize trade has very negative implications for economic development, the environment, and the local population wellbeing. Yet, there is l…
Unequal raw material exchange between and within countries
Long-term trajectories of the C footprint of N fertilization in Mediterranean agriculture (Spain, 1860–2018)
Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilization has helped boost agricultural yields, but it is also responsible for direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Fertilizer-related emissions are also promoted by irrigation and manure application, which has increased with livestock industrialization. Spanish agriculture provides a paradigmatic example of high industrialization under two different climates (temperate and Mediterranean) and two contrast…
Una Aproximación Biofísica a la Industrialización de la Agricultura Española desde la Historia Aplicada
This paper presents the findings of two research studies carried out over several years on the evolution of Spanish agriculture and the change it has undergone towards an industrialized agricultural model. The first research project attempted to analyze the changes that have taken place since the beginning of the 20th century from a biophysical point of view, using the methodology of social metabolism applied to the specificity of agriculture and…
The open veins of Latin America
Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent's economies are net exporters of low-value, primary products and importers of manufactured goods at a high price. This pattern of specialised trade has highly negative consequences for economic development, the environment, and the local population’s wellbeing. Yet to date, little empirical evidence has been collected on Latin America’s to…
From woodfuel to industrial wood
Fertilization strategies for abating N pollution at the scale of a highly vulnerable and diverse semi-arid agricultural region (Murcia, Spain)
Overuse of N fertilizers in crops has induced the disruption of the N cycle, triggering the release of reactive N (Nr) to the environment. Several EU policies have been developed to address this challenge, establishing targets to reduce agricultural Nr losses. Their achievement could be materialized through the introduction of fertilizing innovations such as incorporating fertilizer into soils, using urease inhibitors, or by adjusting N inputs to…
Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860-2010)
Land-use change was the main source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions until the mid-twentieth century, especially due to deforestation processes. In recent decades, however, CO2 sequestration is being induced in some countries where forest area is experiencing net increases. Despite the key role of these processes, we hardly dispose of any empirical evidence of historical changes in biomass stocks, especially in the long-term (over 50 years) and in …
Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (southern Spain, 1787–2019)
In modern societies, changes in population patterns are often studied based on a rural vs urban duality. This dichotomous simplification overlooks the existence of a broad range of human settlements, especially in the rural world. In this work, we quantified and analysed southern Spain’s population and rural settlements from the late eighteenth century to the present, distinguishing three types of settlements: agrotowns, the villages and disperse…
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years
We examine decoupling between augmented human development index and greenhouse gas emissions since 1870. • Wellbeing-growth decoupling is more common in low-income countries, while growth-impact decoupling is more common in higher income countries. • Growth-impact decoupling, i.e., ‘green growth’, is not new nor exclusively Western, and has proved reversible. • No world region has reached a ‘safe and just operating space’ at any point in the last…
Beyond fossil fuels
One of the main challenges facing our society is to decouple levels of well-being from environmental impacts, particularly greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe). Historical knowledge can provide crucial information on the feasibility of achieving this goal. However, very few studies have evaluated the interactions between GHGe and gross domestic product (GDP) or well-being indicators in the long term. So far this literature has only considered CO2 emis…
Geography (19 obras) · Ecology (15 obras) · Economics (14 obras) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (13 obras) · Environmental Science (13 obras) · Agriculture (9 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Agricultural economics (8 obras) · Agroforestry (8 obras)