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Research Results: Leopold Center projects lead to journal publications

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Scientific Journals

Leopold Center-supported projects have resulted in these papers, recently published in peer-reviewed journals. Check at a research library or the journal’s website for abstract or full report.

  • Sharma, Amit, Mary Gregoire and Catherine Strohbehn (2009). Assessing Costs of Using Local Foods in Independent Restaurants, Journal of Foodservice Business Research 12 (1):55-71.

A two-year project funded by a Leopold Center Marketing and Food Systems Initiative grant included interviews and surveys to determine costs of using locally purchased food in restaurant operations. The project was “Economic viability of local food marketing for restaurant operations and growers/producers in Iowa."

  • Atwell, Ryan, Lisa Schulte and Lynne Westphal (2009). Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt, Ecology and Society 14(1): 30. URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art30/
  • Atwell, Ryan, Lisa Schulte and Lynne Westphal (2009). Landscape, community, countryside: Linking biophysical and social scales in U.S. Corn Belt agricultural landscape, Landscape Ecology 24:791-806. URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/kl123378l4116550/
  • Atwell, Ryan, Lisa Schulte and Lynne Westphal (2010). How to build multifunctional agricultural landscapes in the U.S. Corn Belt: Add perennial and partnerships, Land Use Policy 27: 1082-1090. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.02.004.

These papers document results from a project funded by two Leopold Center Ecology Initiative competitive grants on land use changes and views of landowners, farmers and regional stakeholders in the Clear Creek watershed near Stanhope, Iowa. The projects were “Using the past to plan the future: Retrospective assessment of landscape and land use change in Clear Creek watershed,” and “Participatory ecology for ‘Agriculture of the Middle’: Developing tools and partnerships to bridge gaps among science, people and policy in landscape change.”

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