Entre fulgores de ángeles y máculas de tizne: Energía, metabolismo y degradación ecológica en el Valle de Puebla-Tlaxcala, 1530-1820

Abstract

This paper discusses and explains the centrality that has been occupied by natural resources in processes of growth and transformation as they were those of urban spaces and forms of unsustainability generation. From its energy functionality and infrastructure, it is shown the importance of wood for the social metabolism of the city of Puebla, the second in quality in the new Spain; the social conflict carried with the uses, benefits and interests established on the resource and the impact on the configuration of a secular trend in the decomposition of the environmental joint.