David Soto Fernández

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured and modeled soil erosion rates in olive orchards over a 250-year period, and relating these to changes in management practices and yield, as documented from historical sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a methodological proposal that adds agro-ecological EROIs to the existing economic EROI to provide information about the structure and functions of the agroecosystem; in other words, about the maintenance of its fund elements which sustain the flow of ecosystem services.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodological manual to estimate the net primary productivity (NPP) of historical and contemporary cropland, in terms of fresh and dry matter, and gross energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the main economywide/material flow accounting indicators for the Spanish economy between 1860 and 2010 were reconstructed, showing 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the energy embodied in agricultural inputs from a historical perspective, based on a wide literature review, which has been complemented with own estimations in order to create a coherent database including all direct and indirect energy associated to the main agricultural inputs with the maximum possible level of disaggregation.