Historia de la sostenibilidad. Un concepto medioambiental en la historia de Europa central (1000-2006)

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ID22867387
AuthorsBernd Marquardt (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, corresponding author)
Year2006
Issue32
Pages172-197
Publication date2006-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoria Crítica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0121-1617 • E-ISSN: 1900-6152
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.7440/histcrit32.2006.07
OpenAlexW1639397935
LanguageES
Citations received5
References cited1

This article analyzes the history of the environmental principal of sustainability in agrarian and industrial cultures. Its example is Central Europe between the Middle Ages and the 21st century. After the great deforestation of the 12th century, and reaching the limits of the region’s carrying capacity in the 15th century, the European seignorial-communal culture developed a model of sustainability appropriate for a socio-metabolic system based on solar energy, elements of decentralization in local entities, recognition of the upper-limits of the local ecosystem, systemic control of environmental consumption, and the optimization of the use of scarce resources. This system operated until the double Enlightenment-Industrial Revolution at the turn of the 19th century. The socio-metabolic system of the 19th century tried to exist without sustainability, but this concept was rediscovered in the 1990s.

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Consumption (sociology) · Decentralization · Deforestation (computer science) · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Environmental history · Geography · Industrial Revolution · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Welfare economics · Ecology · Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions · Law

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