La producción de leña en España y sus implicaciones en la transición energéticauna serie a escala provincial (1900-2000)

  1. Juan Infante Amate 1
  2. David Soto Fernández 1
  3. Iñaki Iriarte Goñi 1
  4. Eduardo Aguilera 1
  5. Antonio Cid 1
  6. Gloria Guzmán 1
  7. Roberto García-Ruiz and Manuel González de Molina 1
  1. 1 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

Journal:
Documentos de trabajo de la Asociación Española de Historia Económica

Year of publication: 2014

Issue: 14

Type: Working paper

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Abstract

This work provides a provincial scale wood production data-serie for the 20thCentury in Spain as well as a land use reconstruction of wood producers’ areas. We take into account, not only forest areas but croplands able to produce wood such us olive, vineyards or fruits orchards. Our main findings suggest a forestland evolution characterized by a transition from areas and species devoted to firewood production with a high prevailing of Quercus, to an intensive forest system characterized by conifers and high forests concentrated in the North of the country. Along this process, a strong spreading of woody crops in the Mediterranean and Southern part of Spain is observed. Thus, it is possible to identify different patterns of supply and consumption of firewood historically along the country, chiefly the Southern-Mediterranean versus North-Atlantic. The first one, characterized by a high consumption of firewood from crops and a low productive open forest area. The second one, characterized by a consumption from highly productive forest areas. Our estimation of firewood production including woody crops reveals that per capita consumption usually was more the 3 kg/day, a data much higher than traditionally assumed. So, we highlight the importance of firewood in Spain until well into the 20th Century. After analyzing inorganic energy consumption at a provincial scale we stress the importance of firewood as fuel in many provinces, chiefly in the Mediterranean, although in relative terms the firewood use began to be lower and lower because the rising of fossil fuels. This data alter the timing and some causes of the energy transition.

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