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- Updated contents that complement the recently released third edition of the classic Holistic Management, now approaching its thirtieth anniversary
- The only official toolkit for putting the holistic management framework into action
- Streamlined and reorganized material with a fresh look and easy to use interface
- A practical resource for ranchers, farmers, and anyone who makes a living from the land
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Holistic Financial Planning
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Front Matter
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Holistic Planned Grazing
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Front Matter
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Holistic Ecological Monitoring
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Holistic Land Planning
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Back Matter
About this book
Holistic management is a systems‑thinking approach developed by biologist Allan Savory to restore the world’s grassland soils and minimize the damaging effects of climate change and desertification on humans and the natural world. This third edition of Holistic Management Handbook: Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits is the long‑awaited companion volume to Holistic Management, Savory’s classic textbook. It is the key to helping you restore health to your land and ensure a stable, sustainable livelihood from its bounty.
This new edition, thoroughly revised, updated, and streamlined offers step‑by‑step instructions for running a ranch or farm using a holistic management approach. Ranchers, farmers, and anyone working to address global environmental degradation will find this comprehensive handbook an indispensable guide to putting the holistic management concept into action with tangible results.Authors and Affiliations
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Holistic Management International, Stuart, USA
Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory
About the authors
Sam Bingham grew up in the extremely non-brittle Appalachian high country of western North Carolina but had to come to grips with extreme desertification in the 1970s when, as a young freelance journalist, he signed on to help Navajo teachers produce a school textbook from what they could read in their own land—the 27,000 square mile home of the Navajo Nation out where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico join their four corners. "Allan Savory, fresh out of Africa, made us see our work in a world-spanning context," as Sam tells it. Sam's subsequent association Allan's work, as journalist, ghost writer, consultant, and accredited professional, now spans nearly half a century and a good part of our desertifying world—the Australian Outback, the Asian Steppes, and the African Sahel, as well as the American Southwest and some of Latin America. He lives now on a small farm near his roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where four feet of rain fall in a year and calves may go missing in kudzu.
Allan Savory is cofounder and president of the Savory Institute. Born in Zimbabwe and educated as an ecologist with degrees in zoology and botany, Savory has had a decades-long career in African and Middle Eastern government and politics, private consultancy, and teaching. His work in resource management started in the mid-1960s in an effort to find workable solutions ordinary people could implement to restore degraded lands. He and his wife, Jody Butterfield continue those efforts today, reaching a global audience through the efforts of the Savory Institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Holistic Management Handbook
Book Subtitle: Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits
Authors: Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-977-7
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-977-7Published: 13 September 2019
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: X, 254
Topics: Environmental Management, Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation