Holistic Management Handbook : Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits / by Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butterfield, Jody., Author.

Bingham, Sam., Author.

Savory, Allan., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental management.

Chemistry.

Environmental engineering.

Biotechnology.

Bioremediation.

Agriculture.

Soil science.

Environmental Management.

Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.

Soil Science.

Local Subjects:

Environmental Management.

Chemistry.

Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.

Agriculture.

Soil Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 254 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed. 2019.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface-. PART 1. Holistic Financial Planning

Generating Lasting Wealth

PART 2. Holistic Planned Grazing

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

PART 3. Holistic Ecological Monitoring

.Keeping Management Proactive

PART 4. Holistic Land Planning- Designing the Ideal Layout of Facilities for a Grazing Operation

Appendix 1. The Context Checks in Summary

Appendix 2. Holistic Financial Planning Forms

Appendix 3. Grazing Two or More Herds in the Same Grazing Unit

Appendix 4. A More Refined Method for Calculating Grazing Period Adjustment Based on Herd Size Changes

Appendix 5. Grazing Planning Forms

Appendix 6. Interpreting Your Monitoring: 5 Scenarios

Appendix 7. Ecological Monitoring Forms

Glossary.

Notes:

Second edition published as Holistic management handbook : healthy land, healthy profits / Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, and Allan Savory. ©2006. Originally published as a revised edition of Holistic resource management workbook / Sam Bingham with Allan Savory. ©1990.

ISBN:

9781610919777

1610919777

OCLC:

1120719961