LA HUELLA ECOLÓGICA DEL CULTIVO DEL OLIVO EN ESPAÑA Y SU APLICABILIDAD COMO INDICADOR DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE

Authors

  • Francisco López Bermúdez
  • Francisco Alonso Sarria
  • Carmelo Conesa García
  • Enrique Hernández Laguna
  • Yolanda Alvarez Rogel
Keywords: olive trees, mediterranean, footprint, biocapacity, ecological deficit, sustentability

Abstract

The ecological footprint of the olive tree crop in Spain and its aplicability as indicador of the susteinable agriculture. Olive tree crop occupies a vast surface in mediterranean countries being, in fact, an essential part of the landscape. It is the main tree crop in Spain with great ecological, socioeconomic and cultural implications. The main aim of this paper is to asses the sustainability of this crop and the risk of desertification, by calculating its ecological footprint (EF) and compairing it with olive tree biocapacity (BP) in the spanish land, to asses if there is some ecological deficit (ED). Both indicators are calculated in two technological scenarios: ploughing in bare soil and no ploughing, founding that the ecological footprint is a good discriminator between both methods.

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Author Biographies

Francisco López Bermúdez

Departamento de Geografía Física, Humana y Análisis Geográfico Regional Facultad de Letras Campus de La Merced

Francisco Alonso Sarria

Departamento de Geografía Física, Humana y Análisis Geográfico Regional Facultad de Letras Campus de La Merced

Carmelo Conesa García

Departamento de Geografía Física, Humana y Análisis Geográfico Regional Facultad de Letras Campus de La Merced

Enrique Hernández Laguna

Departamento de Geografía Física, Humana y Análisis Geográfico Regional Facultad de Letras Campus de La Merced

Yolanda Alvarez Rogel

Departamento de Geografía Física, Humana y Análisis Geográfico Regional Facultad de Letras Campus de La Merced
How to Cite
López Bermúdez, F., Alonso Sarria, F., Conesa García, C., Hernández Laguna, E., & Alvarez Rogel, Y. (2004). LA HUELLA ECOLÓGICA DEL CULTIVO DEL OLIVO EN ESPAÑA Y SU APLICABILIDAD COMO INDICADOR DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE. Geography Papers, (39), 141–155. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/geografia/article/view/44821
Issue
No. 39 (2004)
Section
Articles

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