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THE INANIMATE FOREST Commercial Management and Environmental Degradation of Andalusian Forests Historical Context of Energy Supply Nadia Martínez Espinar
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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.
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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).
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Research Cázulas
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Cázulas Municipality of Otívar. Cázulas. Province of Granada Granada Capital
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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).
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Traditional Management Beginning Twentieth Century Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime- production, esparto- grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunting, farm- cottages lessees…
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Traditional Management Beginning Twentieth Century Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime- production, esparto- grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunters, farm-cottages lessees…
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Traditional Management Beginning Twentieth Century Charcoal-burners, wood-cutters, firewood collection, lime- production, esparto- grass and medicinal plants collection, livestock, hunting, farm- cottages lessees…
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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
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Direct Use of Forest Product as Energy (Davidsdottir, 2004) Wood fuels renewable and climate-friendly source. Firewood (benefits and problems). Charcoal (benefits and problems).
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Modern Management Timber industry Paper and Cellulose Industry. consumers of modern energy
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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 community wage-earning workers emigration
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Transition Forest: source of energy and natural resources (economic complement to rural families) Forest: industries consumers of energy (wage- earning work) Inanimate Forest
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Source: Rubio, 2005
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Source: Krausmann, Haberl, 2002
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Krausmann, Haberl, 2002
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USA-Energy Consumption by Source, 1635- 2000 (Quadrillion Btu) Source: EIA
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Case Study Cazulas. Resources Management. Beginning Twentieth Century Types of resources: Wood exploitation Resin exploitation Charcoal and firewood Livestock Farm-cottages
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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
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Connection: external pressure/changes in Cázulas (ongoing research) External Influence International market demand (historical evolution). International energy supply (historical evolution). T ransition in Cázulas. Data compilation: Cázulas archive. Income / Expenses books, since 1890 until 1960.
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Traditional Energy Sources
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