SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Juan Infante-Amate is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Granada, Spain. Previously, he taught at Pablo de Olavide University in Spain and has been a visiting researcher at various universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, East Anglia, Costa Rica, and BOKU in Vienna. He holds a PhD in History, a Master’s in Agroecology, and a Bachelor’s in Economics. His research focuses on the study of society’s interactions with its environment over the long term. He is currently exploring the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and economic development on a global scale since the 19th century, as well as the extraction and trade of natural resources in Latin America since 1900.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Juan Infante-Amate is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Granada, Spain. Previously, he taught at Pablo de Olavide University in Spain and has been a visiting researcher at various universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, East Anglia, Costa Rica, and BOKU in Vienna. He holds a PhD in History, a Master’s in Agroecology, and a Bachelor’s in Economics. His research focuses on the study of society’s interactions with its environment over the long term. He is currently exploring the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and economic development on a global scale since the 19th century, as well as the extraction and trade of natural resources in Latin America since 1900.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
During his stay at the Extractivism project, Juan Infante-Amate works on the reconstruction and analysis of a series on the extraction of natural resources and their socio-environmental impacts in Latin America’s energy regimes in the last century and a half.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Goñi, I. I., and Infante-Amate, J. Impactos ambientales del crecimiento económico en España, una perspectiva histórica. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza (2024). VIEW PUBLICATION
Infante-Amate, J., Urrego-Mesa, A., Pinero, P., and Tello, E. “The open veins of Latin America: Long-term physical trade flows (1900–2016)”, Global Environmental Change, 76, (2022): 1-12. VIEW PUBLICATION
Infante-Amate, J., Iriarte-Goñi, I., Urrego-Mesa, A., and Gingrich, S. “From woodfuel to industrial wood: a socio-metabolic reading of the forest transition in Spain (1860–2010)”, Ecological Economics, 201, (2022): 1-12. VIEW PUBLICATION
González de Molina, M., Soto Fernández, D., Guzmán Casado, G., Infante-Amate, J., Aguilera Fernández, E., Vila Traver, J., and García Ruiz, R (eds.). The social metabolism of Spanish agriculture, 1900–2008: The Mediterranean way towards industrialization, Berlin: Springer Nature (2020).VIEW PUBLICATION
Infante-Amate, J., and Krausmann, F. “Trade, ecologically unequal exchange and colonial legacy: the case of France and its former colonies (1962–2015)”, Ecological Economics, 156, (2019): 98-109. VIEW PUBLICATION