Holistic Management Handbook Third EditionJody Butterfield Sam Bingham Allan SavoryLabel: Island PressDescription: 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 the classic text Holistic Management Third Edition. Crafted under the direction of Savory's longtime collaborator Jody Butterfield this handbook is the key to developing a comprehensive holistic land plan based on Savory's principles that will help you to restore health to your land and ensure a stable sustainable livelihood from its bounty. This new edition thoroughly revised updated and streamlined explains the planning procedures described in Holistic Management and offers step-by-step instructions for running a ranch or farm using a holistic management approach. Butterfield and her coauthors describe how to use the handbook in conjunction with the textbook to tailor a management plan for your unique combination of land livestock and finances. Their mantra is plan monitor control and replan. Using a four-part approach the authors walk readers through basic concepts and techniques help them put a plan onto paper monitor the results and adjust the details as needed. Appendixes provide updated worksheets checklists planning and monitoring forms and detailed examples of typical scenarios a user might encounter. The handbook includes a comprehensive glossary of terms. Ranchers farmers pastoralists social entrepreneurs government agencies and NGOs 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 they can take to the bank.
