This makes it necessary for the managers to engage the locals in the holistic management of water resources.
Holistic management practices like soliciting regular employee feedback coupled with management by objectives, allows managers to delve into the drivers of employee performance.
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In turn, enlightened holistic management needs a supportive governance framework that doesn't put the shareholder cart before the company horse.
Savory's argument, which counters popular conceptions, is that more livestock rather than fewer can help save the planet through a concept he calls "holistic management".
- He claims that "reductionist science" doesn't understand what holistic management involves, which is why it fails to measure the outcomes properly.
Patagonia, the clothing company committed to environmental responsibility, has partnered with Ovis XXI and the Nature Conservancy to regenerate the grasslands of Patagonia using holistic management.
Far from grazing helping to store carbon, holistic management seems to have the opposite effect: the evidence strongly suggests that livestock reduce carbon storage rather than raising it.
As for the claim that holistic management can reverse the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to RealClimate.org, he's wrong by orders of magnitude.
This paper (again apparently unpublished except on his website) explained the lack of scientific support for his claims as follows: Holistic management does not permit replication.
Overall, it concluded: "Ecologically, the application of holistic management principles of trampling and intensive foraging are as detrimental to plants, soils, water storage, and plant productivity as are conventional grazing systems".
