Holistic Management Handbook

Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits

verfasst von: Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik"

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Holistic Financial Planning

Frontmatter

Generating Lasting Wealth

Abstract

THIS BOOK DOES NOT BEGIN WITH LAND PLANNING, stock density, paddocks, and grazing periods. It begins with financial planning, because money is the ruler. For better or worse it is the ruler even though your holistic context goes far beyond profit. In fact, both the materialist who finds the breath of life in crisp new bills and the poet who would rather live without them might find more peace of mind and freedom of spirit by accepting the notion that money is nothing but a tool. It is certainly not fulfillment and not necessarily even wealth, broadly speaking.

Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

Holistic Planned Grazing

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Getting Animals to the Right Place, at the Right Time, with the Right Behavior

Abstract

IN THE EARLY DAYS, PEOPLE WISHING TO PRACTICE HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT using livestock were usually advised to build an arrangement of fences, commonly but not always, in the pattern of a wagon wheel around a central water point. Although this is indeed an efficient way to handle livestock in many situations, the wagon wheel became such a strong symbol that it obscured the idea behind it. Like people who draw symbols on the doorpost to keep away lightning, many ranchers and researchers built wagon-wheel grazing cells in the belief that they had magic power to grow grass.

Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

Holistic Ecological Monitoring

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Keeping Management Proactive

Abstract

A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT is that success requires planning—and successful planning requires implementation (of course), monitoring, controlling, and replanning. Holistic Management makes this point in many ways and contexts, and earlier chapters in this handbook have repeated it. In any situation you manage, you should be monitoring to make happen what you want to happen—to bring about desired changes in line with your holistic context. Monitoring developments in the ecological sphere, however, deserves its own treatment because much of what we do as land managers may lead to unanticipated effects. Anytime you plan to alter ecosystem processes in any way, assume you could be wrong because the land is more complex than humans will ever understand.

Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

Holistic Land Planning

Frontmatter

Designing the Ideal Layout of Facilities for a Grazing Operation

Abstract

HOLISTIC LAND PLANNING AND HOLISTIC PLANNED GRAZING developed in tandem as both grew out of our new understanding about the role of time in grazing and trampling. To keep large herds of animals moving continually requires new thinking about the way fencing, water points, roads, and handling facilities are laid out—especially when you’re dealing with large tracts of land that require a considerable investment in that sort of infrastructure. Once we no longer were constrained to fencing based on soil types, many possibilities opened up for laying out the needed infrastructure in ways that could improve animal handling, reduce capital and running costs, and increase the profitability of ranching operations.

Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

Backmatter

Titel: Holistic Management Handbook
verfasst von: Jody Butterfield
Sam Bingham
Allan Savory
Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-977-7
Print ISBN: 978-1-64283-064-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-977-7