LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. DIALOGUE AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE SPANISH CONTEXT

Abstract

With this paper, a critical view over the epistemology of the Spanish environmental history is considered along the las two decades from the 80`s. From that point, management of the commons, socioenvironmental conflicts and studies about social metabolism have been the main axes for constructing this new discipline. The study of environmental history implies an interdisciplinary approach of the co-evolutive relation between human societies and nature. This approach, in the case of Spain, was originated from the agrarian history that study objects connected with the transformation of property system of natural resources, changes in the management of themselves and an increased attention to environmental conflicts originated from these changes. In this context, study of the commons played an important role in the course of Spanish environmental history. Main purpose is no not completing an overview about Spanish Agrarian History, not possible in this context, otherwise a look to the environmental approach from the emerging and seminal support from agrarian approaches, born from the 80`s. Deforestation, Impact of Biomas Extractive Processes, Extraction of Natural capital inside a global capitalism model are some of the notes that lie beneath under an overview to the territory, searching the continuities and discontinuities in the contemporary age.