Measuring Sustainability and Resilience Workshop
Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 
Start: 8:30 am
Location: Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, Ames
Contact: Laura Miller, 515-294-5272, lwmiller@iastate.edu
This day-long workshop for past, present and future grantees of the Leopold Center focused on practical ways that research about Iowa's agriculture and natural resources can incorporate the concept of resilience. As defined by the keynote speaker, weed ecologist David Mortensen from Pennsylvania State University, resilience is "the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still have all the essential elements it needs to function."
Workshop materials
- Agenda [PDF]
- Speaker Biographies [PDF]
- Read the news release
- View the poster slideshow -- handout showing each poster [PDF is 5.8 MB]
- View the photo gallery
- Results from group exercise: Using the Logic Model to Measure Sustainability & Resilience [PDF]
Keynote address
"Practical Applications of Sustainability and Resilience Goals to Agriculture" by David Mortensen, Professor of Weed Ecology, Pennsylvania State University.
Panel
"Measuring Sustainability and Resilience" with Laura Jackson, University of Northern Iowa; Matt Liebman, Iowa State University; Richard Sloan, Rowley producer; and Bahia Barry, Southwest Iowa Food and Farm Initiative. Moderated by Richard Leopold, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
More about resilience
- Workshop explores resilience, sustainability, May 26, 2011 Leopold Center news release
- Resilience discussed at May 25 workshop, Summer 2011 Leopold Letter
- Laura Jackson, “When your boat rocks, you want resilience not efficiency,” Spring 2011 Leopold Letter
- Corry Bregendahl, “Workshop to explore sustainability, resilience,” Spring 2011 Leopold Letter
- John Gilbert, “Looking at resilience from the farm level,” Winter 2010 Leopold Letter
- Fred Kirschenmann, “Imagining resilience,” Fall 2010 Leopold Letter
- Laura Miller, "Looking for resilience after a year of flooding," Fall 2010 Leopold Letter
- Lois Wright Morton, “Sustainability and Resilience,” Fall 2010 Leopold Letter
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Ames, Iowa 50011 |
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