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Holistic Management
A New Framework for Decision Making

640 pages
6 x 9
70 photos, 38 illustrations

Allan Savory <https://islandpress.org/author/allan-savory> and Jody
Butterfield <https://islandpress.org/author/jody-butterfield>
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ISBN:
9781559634885
Pub Date:
December 1998
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Book Description Contents

Increasingly sophisticated technology and an ever-expand-ing base of
knowledge have not been enough to allow humans to halt the worldwide
progression of environmental degradation. Extensive fieldwork in both
Africa and the United States convinced Allan Savory that neither the forces
of nature nor commonly blamed culprits -- overpopulation, poor farming
practices, lack of financial support -- were causing the decline of
once-healthy ecosystems. He also noted that once land has become degraded,
leaving it alone seldom helps revitalize it. Savory eventually came to
realize that on the most fundamental level, environmental problems are
caused by human management decisions, and only through wholesale changes in
the way decisions are made can functioning ecosystems be restored. In
response to that startling discovery, Savory began to develop a
revolutionary new approach to decision-making and management. Known
initially as Holistic Resource Management, and now as simply Holistic
Management, it considers humans, their economies, and the environment as
inseparable. It includes a common-sense decision-making framework that
requires no specialized knowledge or elaborate technology to utilize, and
is applicable in any environment or management situation. At the heart of
the approach lies a simple testing process that enables people to make
decisions that simultaneously consider economic, social, and environmental
realities, both short- and long-term.

*Holistic Management* is a newly revised and updated edition of *Holistic
Resource Management* (Island Press, 1988), which was the first book-length
treatment of Savory's decision-making framework and how it could be
applied. A decade of trial-and-error implementation has strengthened and
clarified the book's ideas, and has expanded the scope of the process to
include all manner of decisions and management situations, not just those
that relate to land and resource management.

*Holistic Management* has been practiced by thousands of people around the
world to profitably restore and promote the health of their land through
practices that mimic nature, and by many others who have sought a more
rewarding personal or family life. This book is an essential handbook for
anyone involved with land management and stewardship -- ranchers, farmers,
resource managers, and others -- and a valuable guide for all those seeking
to make better decisions within their organizations or in any aspect of
their personal lives.