Holistic Resource Management

by Allan Savory, Center for Holistic Management (Primary Contributor)

Holistic Resource Management provides the practical instruction in financial, biological, and land planning necessary to apply the holistic management model. Allan Savory's teaching approach was developed and tested in classes for ranchers, farmers, and government agency personnel. Case studies drawn from real-life situations and presented in clear language lead the reader through the planning process..

Paperback

First published December 1, 1988

Reviews

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A thoroughly interesting book with a wonderful emphasis on goal setting. Politicians and economist put a "tremendous focus on money, a symbol, rather than on productivity of resources, which is the true wealth." p. 18
This is a sensible, systematic and flexible approach to ranch management - many of the ideas could be applied to life in general.

[Mike Moskos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Savory has found the key to reversing desertification: restoring normal animal behavior on human-managed lands.

The book is long (500+ pages in small type) and with too much detail in the wrong places. Nevertheless it is a landmark book that demonstrates that by changing animal husbandry to biomimic evolutionary behavior, we can restore the soil we humans have inadvertantly ruined via our ignorance/arrogance.

He doesn't say it in the book (published in 1985), but such practices are arguably our best (easiest to implement at the lowest cost) method to reduce atmospheric carbon levels. No other plan also reverses desertification while allowing the earth to handle billions of more herbivores that themselves can feed billions of more humans.