num_pages: 30
description: The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.While viewing the impending threat of climate change Allan Savory invites the audience to take a global view of the current situation of the world. Pointing out that more than twenty civilizations have failed in different regions of the world because of their agriculture practices over the centuries he suggests a two-level solution to our problem: new policies and holistic management of ranches and farms. Savory finds it essential that public opinion comes to recognize that land management must be holistic while also acknowledging social environmental and economic complexity.
language: English
title: Greening the Desert: Holistic Management in the Era of Climate Change
publisher: Schumacher Center for a New Economics