Holistic management
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A system of resource management created by Allan Savory. The main focus is on livestock pastures in brittle environments.
The core of the system is holistic decision making, which can be applied to many other fields besides resource management.
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A profoundly simple management process that enables people in any walk of life to make decisions that are simultaneously economically, socially and environmentally sound short and long term. Originally developed by Allan Savory as a way of reversing biodiversity loss and consequent desertification, the holistic decision making framework was subsequently found to be useable from a household to a global level. Using this holistic framework people are able to do things that were almost impossible using the recently discovered universal human decision making framework. This is particularly the case when resource management is involved, from the diagnosis of resource problems to the formation of holistically sound policies and projects dealing with such complexity. At its core the holistic framework uses a new concept known as a holisticgoal to guide decision making. The holisticgoal ties any people's desired way of life based on what they value most deeply (materially and spiritually) to their life supporting ecosystems essential functions.
While many minds around the world are coming to accept that there is an urgent need to shift from a mechanistic world view to a holistic world view, Holistic Management takes such a theoretical notion into everyday practice.
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Savory, Allan; Jody Butterfield [December 1988] (1998-12-01). Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making, 2nd ed. (in English), Washington, D.C.: Island Press. ISBN 1-55963-487-1.
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