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Holistic Management

Holistic Management is a decision-making framework that ensures our decisions are economically, environmentally and socially sound i.e. the triple bottom line. Holistic Management enables you to develop a clear vision of the future you want.
 
 

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which they were created.  

Albert Einstein

 

Holistic Management has its roots in environmental management. But, as it is essentially a decision-making process it is applicable to people in all walks of life - households, both rural and urban based businesses, government and educational organisations. By changing the way we make our decisions, we can tackle many of the problems we face today.  

The technology we wield today has greatly expanded the ways in which we can alter our environment and that, combined with the exponential increase in our numbers has magnified our potential for causing damage. Now, more than ever, we require the ability to make decisions that consider economic, social and environmental realities, both short and long term.

Allan Savory

 

Holistic Management in Australia

Holistic Management International / Australia Limited is a non-profit organisation created to assist farmers, graziers and land managers to simultaneously regenerate their land, improve productivity and increase their profitability. HMIA represents eleven Certified Educators, of which Brian Wehlburg and Helen Lewis of Inside Outside Management are two, currently qualified to teach the principles of Holistic Management in Australia. Each of these people have undertaken two years intensive training and comply with rigorous annual re-certification requirements through Holistic Management International.

 

A history of Holistic Management

Allan Savory, ecologist, biologist, game warden, farmer, soldier, politician, renowned environmentalist and winner of the Banksia International Award 2003, is the founder of Holistic Management.

As a young graduate employed in various Southern African national parks in the 1960's, Allan realised that the land and wild life he was working with was doomed. Later, when working in the USA he came to realise that this deterioration of the African environment was not a result of the often quoted reasons of overpopulation, poverty, overstocking, lack of technology, poor extension services etc. Comparable deterioration was occurring in Western Texas, USA, where the climate was similar to that of Southern Africa. However, western Texas had a declining population, the latest technology, sophisticated extension services etc. The only common denominator between these two situations was the decisions the human managers of these environments had made.  

Mankind has been very successful in the area of technology, but, when it comes to making decisions that are environmentally and socially sound, our failures outweigh our successes. Allan noted this. He studied wild animals in different habitats and read the works of Jan Smuts, Andre Voisin and others. Allan realised that hooved animals play a critical role in the health of arid environments. He recognised that nature functions in wholes and that we need to change the way we make decisions. All this led to the development of the Holistic Management decision making framework, as we know it today, which is being used by thousands of families, businesses and other organisations to improve the quality of their lives and to regenerate the resource base that sustains them. This includes conservation projects in the USA, Africa and Australia, where large areas of land are being transformed into sustainable ecosystems

 

 
Holistic Management has given us a feeling of control over our enterprise and future. It has made us aware of how much effect we can have on the environment be it good or bad.”

Stuart & Angela Shannon, Bonshaw, NSW



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