(hereinafter, ‘‘Haza’’), a cattle producing dehesa in the
Monfragu¨e area (Fig. 1).
In our accounting system, permanent oak regeneration is
added back to the AAS to yield an ideal sustainable
silvicultural management scenario in Haza. We compare
the actual unsustainable Haza management scenario with
an ideal sustainable woodland management scenario using
steady-state data based on Campos et al. (2003) and
Martı´n et al. (2001). This is of special interest in the dehesa
where livestock production is the dominant source of
income since the sustainable woodland management
scenario calls for a temporary grazing exclusion.
A major objective of this study is to show how applying
the AAS at the estate scale will result in a substantial
improvement in the measurement of single and aggregated
joint market and amenity private incomes. A second
objective of this Haza economic analysis is to show the
income (commercial benefits) changes to a private dehesa
owner when moving from the actual unsustainable, to an
ideal sustainable, oaks management. The results might
shape land use policy regulations and economic incentives
that support the conservation of oak dehesa woodlands,
and their public and private incomes, through agroforestry
management of private lands.