the inanimate forest commercial management and environmental degradation of andalusian forests
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THE INANIMATE FORESTCommercial Management and Environmental Degradation of
Andalusian Forests
Historical Context of Energy Supply
Nadia Martínez Espinar
Introduction
Environmental degradation and social abandoning of Spanish forests.
Environmental History: main causes of these problems do not rise from the present, but from the past.
Drought, soil erosion, deforestation, fire risk, depopulation.
Research Cázulas
Hypothesis:
The situation of our forests has been provoked by changes in the environment´s economic function that happened during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Hegemony of commercial interests to manage the natural resources.
Case Study: Cázulas (Granada-Spain).
Research Cázulas
Cázulas
Municipality of Otívar.
Cázulas.
Province of Granada
Granada Capital
Content
Transition (19th-20th centuries): Traditional Industrial management of natural resources. Predominance traditional energy sources predominance
modern energy sources.
National/International energy context (historical approach)
Connection: external influence changes in Cázulas (research proposal).
Traditional Management
Beginning Twentieth Century
Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime-production, esparto-grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunting, farm-cottages lessees…
Traditional Management
Beginning Twentieth Century
Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime-production, esparto-grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunters, farm-cottages lessees…
Traditional Management
Beginning Twentieth Century
Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime-production, esparto-grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunting, farm-cottages lessees…
Traditional Management
Beginning Twentieth Century
Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime-production, esparto-grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunting, farm-cottages lessees…
Energy Supply
Direct Use of Forest Product as Energy (Davidsdottir, 2004)
Wood fuelsrenewable and climate-friendly source.
Firewood (benefits and problems).
Charcoal (benefits and problems).
Modern Management
Timber industry
Paper and Cellulose Industry.
consumers of modern energy
TRANSIT FROM TRADITIONAL USE TO INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Reforestation: Wood farms Foreign and rapidly growing species fire-risky
Disappearance traditional uses: Depopulation of the forest/less watchers Less cleaning-tasks of the forest (livestock, lime-production,
charcoal, firewood)
Rural communitywage-earning workersemigration
Transition
Forest: source of energy and natural resources (economic complement to rural families)
Forest: industries consumers of energy (wage-earning work)
Inanimate Forest
Source: Rubio, 2005
Source: Rubio, 2005
Source: Rubio, 2005
Source: Rubio, 2005
Source: Krausmann, Haberl, 2002
Krausmann, Haberl, 2002
USA-Energy Consumption by Source, 1635-2000
(Quadrillion Btu)
Source: EIA
Case Study Cazulas.Resources Management. Beginning Twentieth Century Types of resources:
Wood exploitation Resin exploitation
Charcoal and firewood Livestock Farm-cottages
Case Study Cazulas.Resources Management.The fifties. Disappearance of the Resin exploitation (abandoned
trees-”trametes”) Timber exploitation vs. Livestock use (industrial use vs.
Traditional use)
The seventies. Radical elimination of non-industrial managements Timber+Hunting (professional)=closed forest
Connection: external pressure/changes in Cázulas (ongoing research)
External Influence International market demand (historical evolution). International energy supply (historical evolution).
Transition in Cázulas. Data compilation: Cázulas archive. Income / Expenses books, since 1890 until 1960.
Traditional Energy Sources
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