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Holistic Management
Overview by Brian Marshall, Certified Holistic Management Educator
Overview by Brian Marshall, Certified Holistic Management Educator
Holistic Management represents the life work of Allan Savory with contributions from many other scientists and graziers. It is a logical presentation of how environments function, particularly 'brittle-tending', seasonally erratic landscapes like much of Australia, and how important grazing animals can be to the health of the land. As land managers we have an opportunity to use this fundamentally new knowledge to reverse desertification, increase stocking rate, carrying capacity, and profitability.
Holistic Management is a framework for decision making offering the most successful process for land management because it focuses on your 'unique whole situation' and offers comprehensive, long-term strategies for restoration and management.
Unlike other approaches, Holistic Management begins with the establishment of a holisticgoal based on the core values of the decision makers and how their land must be in the future to sustain those values. This is not a wish list, but a values based goal that decisions are tested toward, considering social, financial and ecological soundness.
The cornerstones of managing holistically are Financial Planning, Grazing Planning, Land Planning and Biological Monitoring. By measuring all decisions within these four areas against the holisticgoal, Holistic Management replaces fragmentary decision-making and short-term solutions with a process that is proven to work, and to produce the greatest returns.
Holistic Management incorporates more comprehensive strategic planning and financial planning, and more robust monitoring systems than other approaches to land management. As described in the March-April '07 Alice Springs 'Rural Review', Allan Savory & Jody Butterfield's 'Holistic Management – A New Framework for Decision Making' ... "is an important book. If you manage land, animals, people or care about the environment or our future, you need to read it." Each business attending the training workshop will receive this book and the new edition of the Holistic Management Handbook, plus planning guides and forms.
Allan Savory’s 4 Key Insights into Holistic Managment