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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment

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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment

By: Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
Narrated by: Paul W. Griffiths
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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels with environmentally benign energy sources.

Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach for managing resources, developed by Savory decades ago after observing the devastation of desertification in his native Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Properly managed livestock are key to restoring the world's grassland soils, the major sink for atmospheric carbon, and minimizing the most damaging impacts on humans and the natural world.

This audiobook updates Savory's paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the loss of biodiversity, eliminating fundamental causes of human impoverishment throughout the world, and climate change. Reorganized chapters make it easier for listeners to understand the framework for holistic management and the four key insights that underlie it.

This long-anticipated new edition is written for new generations of ranchers, farmers, ecological and social entrepreneurs, and development professionals working to address global environmental and social degradation. It offers new hope that a sustainable future for humankind and the world we depend on is within reach.

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©2016 Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield (P)2017 Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield
Agricultural & Food Sciences Environment Natural Resources Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Sustainable Agriculture Conservation Africa Sustainability Management Natural History Ecosystem Palaeontology Ranch Holistic Management
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Everyday I see the inspiring and powerful results of implementing a Holistic Management Plan. Helps enable me to predict what actions I need to take to get to where I want to be in the future.

Changing my world

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Fantastic information, very well set out with the Holistic management framework on the PDF to support the book

Very informative

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This book breaks down some seriously damaging myths about environmental management. Having studied Environmental science 10 years ago and again now, I hadn't come across his ideas in mainstream science. BUT, they should be taught to all Environmental and Agriculture majors throughout the world. This book is a game changer.

An Environmental/Agricultural leadership must!

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It is time we all put the efforts to save our planet for the well-being of the future generations, and we all have a role to play for this happen unconventionally. Thanks for this amazing book. I love the alternative narration between Paul and Allan, it made it so original.

A stunning and mind blowing content

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Great book giving hope to all about the possibilities that agriculture and in particular the management of agriculture can provide answers to global issues around global warming and and providing safe profitable food and fiber.

Important stuff

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Fantastic and best of all applies no matter where you live. Too many books are targeted at American audiences but this works worldwide. I cannot recommend it enough. I'll be getting the rest of the savory institute ebooks asap

A superb book, highly recommended

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This book changed my understanding of the environment completely. I would recommend this book to all.

Exceptional

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I feel a better way of looking at a vast majority of problems with the world today.

food for thought!!

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a few little skip backs throughout the book. I like how it was read with some additions from the author.

a few little skip backs

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Great book, advice and man. These ideas, wisdom and philosophies need to become the bedrock of our agricultural systems moving forwards.

You'll get sick of the word 'whole' in the first few chapters and the pronunciation of ecosystem as 'echosystem'. Editing needs finishing.

Foundational agricultural knowledge

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