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The Socio-Ecological Transition on a Crop Scale: The Case of Olive Orchards in Southern Spain (1750–2000)

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  1. All the data about the case studies have been compiled from the “Andalusian System of Multi-Territorial Information” (IEA 2010) and from the ‘Lucdeme’ project.

  2. Indeed, the availability of food per capita in 1750 had higher energy content than in the nineteenth century. Recent anthropometric studies have shown that the biological standards of living for its inhabitants were among the highest in Spain at that time (Cámara 2007).

  3. Full details for its application to historical contexts can be found in Infante-Amate (2011).

  4. This process truly began in the early decades of the twentieth century but was halted by the autarkic policy developed by Franco’s Regime through to the 1960s (Infante-Amate 2011).

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This research was supported by the funding project HAR2009-13748-C03-03 (Ministerio de Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología) and 895-2011-1020 (Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council). We would like to thank Paul Warde, Tom Williamson and Gloria Guzmán for their helpful comments. All remaining errors are solely ours.

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Infante-Amate, J., de Molina, M.G. The Socio-Ecological Transition on a Crop Scale: The Case of Olive Orchards in Southern Spain (1750–2000). Hum Ecol 41, 961–969 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9618-4

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