The integration of environmental accounting with a unique social accounting system is arousing growing interest in research circles. There is emerging demand, too, from government, due to European Union (EU) regulations on management of natural resources and damage to the environment. The EU still...

This chapter applies the satellite system 'Manual on Economic Accounts for Agriculture and Forestry - EAA/EAF 97' of the 'European System of Accounts' (ESA) and the 'Agroforestry Accounts System' (AAS) to a dehesa estate. Both accounting approaches are applied in order to measure total social...

Oak woodlands in California cover 4 million hectares and are over 80% privately owned. Silvopastoralism is the dominant land use, providing a working landscape with the highest biodiversity levels in the state. However, high opportunity costs from alternative land uses threaten to fragment these...

Rancher-subsidized oak woodland silvopastoralism is being used to conserve land in California oak woodlands. As part of the Working Landscapes movement, non-governmental organizations like the Nature Conservancy and a proliferation of land trusts are brokering private and public fund transfers in...