Iowa's food and natural resource base is diverse and dynamic, a source of economic and social prosperity for Iowa's communities.  The integration of our growing scientific knowledge about agriculture, food and our natural environment with local knowledge, beliefs and attitudes is essential if Iowa is to continue to be a leader in agriculture and a model in environmental protection and restoration.  Sociology Extension works with farmers, landowners, community residents and their organizations to encourage decisions and actions that will protect, restore and use our natural resource base to strengthen Iowa communities.  Current programming includes:

Biorenewables
Emerging Meat Markets
Grassland and Prairies
Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll
Iowa Food Security, Insecurity, and Hunger
Sustainable Agriculture
Water quality and watershed management
Women in Agriculture
Latino and Local Food Systems

Links:
CALS Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources
Leopold Center
ISU Water Center
ISU Biorenewable Institute

Beverlyn L. Allen
• Community Studies and Development
• Social Organization and Social Inequality

J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr.
• Agriculture and conservation practices
• Biorenewables
• Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll

Jan Flora
• Understanding decision making involving interplay of advocacy coalitions involving local, national, and international institutional actors (civil society, market, and state) around land use, water quality, decentralized administration of bio-reserves, mining issues
• Rural development/capacity building involving food and natural resource issues as part of the problem and solutions
• Agriculture and the environment; using visioning to identify advocacy coalitions around alternative futures in watersheds

Betty Wells
• Agriculture and women, leadership and decision making
• Diversity as it relates to food and natural resources
• Land tenure (men and women)
• Women and natural resources, coalition building

Lois Wright Morton
• Ag and food systems and the implications for community health outcomes
• Food security, food insecurity, and hunger
• Resident-led watershed management, building civic communities

Paul Lasley
• Agriculture
• Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll

Other Sociology faculty with related research but no explicit extension appointment
• Carmen Bain (rural institutions, food systems, biorenewables)
• Cornelia Flora (food systems and environment)
• Marta Maldonado (Hispanic agricultural labor)
• Steve Sapp (food safety, CAFOs and impacts to community)
• William Woodman (ethics of bioengineering food)

Community Development Library (Pre-1990):

• Communication Process and Leadership
• Communities…a key to group leadership
• Creating Coordination Among Organizations
• The Diffusion Process
• Group Member Roles For Group Effectiveness
• A Guide for Understanding Attitudes and Attitude Change
• How Farm People Accept New Ideas
• Identifying the Community Power Actors: A Guide for Change Agents
• Identifying the Community Power Structure
• Ins + Outs and Ups + Downs of Groups
• Keys to Communities
• The Leader…and the Group
• Leadership-What is it?…It's dimensions
• Social Action Worksheet
• Social Action

Outreach

Lasley, Paul. “Understanding the Changing Nature of Agriculture and Rural Society.” A three part series for the ISU Extension Short course for John Deere Employee Training—A required inservice for all of John Deere’s 6,000 Iowa employees.

Lasley, Paul. Keynote for Agri Industries Annual Meeting. January 21, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Rural Development Council. February 13, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Agricultural Communicators National Convention, Des Moines. March 2, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. North Iowa Mental Health Inservice, Mason City. March 5, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Strategic Council Report 2010, Clarion Chamber of Commerce. March 19, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Tama-Toledo Kiwanis. March 21, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. US College of Agriculture Student Councils — Des Moines. March 31, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Madison County Sheep Producers. April 9, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Ohio State University Faculty Seminars—Columbus and Wooster. May 28-30, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. ISU Greeley School of Journalism. June 7, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. USDA-Cooperative Service Panel-St. Louis. June 18-19, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Southwest Iowa Mental Health—Guthrie Center. June 26, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. CARD Inservice for Albania Visitors. August 8, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Iowa Rural Summit. August 28, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Iowa Veterinary Association. September 21, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Cedar Rapids-Kirkwood Community College. October 4, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Federal Reserve Board—Buena Vista College-Storm Lake. October 18, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. American Planning Association—Pella. November 8, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. I-CASH Annual Meeting—Des Moines. November 9, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Fort Dodge Area Extension Council. November 12, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Rural Development Council—Des Moines. November 13, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Des Moines Area Extension Council—Des Moines. November 15, 2001.

Lasley, Paul. Southeast Iowa Extension Staff Retreat—Iowa City. December 19, 2001.

Reports

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *Hispanic/Latino Residents by Specific Origin in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-19. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *Sex and Age in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-16. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 7 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *Selected Age Data for Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-14. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 8 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *Residents by Race and Hispanic Origin in Iowa’s Counties, 2000. CS2001-12. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *White Residents in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-10. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Residents in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-9. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat and Willis Goudy. *American Indian or Alaska Native Residents in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-8. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Burke, Sandra Charvat, Willis Goudy and Margaret Hanson. ** 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 1, Iowa: Incorporated Place Designation (1 for each of 949 places). Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 5 pages each.

Burke, Sandra Charvat, Willis Goudy and Margaret Hanson. ** 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 1, Iowa: County Designation (1 for each of 99 counties). Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 5 pages each.

Burke, Sandra Charvat, Willis Goudy and Margaret Hanson. ** 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 1, State of Iowa. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 5 pages.

Chaudry, Peter and Robert E. Mazur. Final Report of the Social Impact Study, Feeder Roads Project, Zambézia Province, Mozambique. Mozambique National Road Administration, Scott Wilson Ltd., and Department for International Development (UK Government).

Flora, C.B. “Community Social Capacity Rural and Community Prosperity Congressional Briefing.” Washington, DC: Consortium of Social Science Associations. Pp. 7-10.

Flora, C.B. “Leadership Development: Investing in a Critical Community Asset.” Rural Development News. Vol. 25, No. 1.

Flora, C.B. “Poverty Reduction and Rural Development.” Rural Development News. Vol. 24, No. 4.

Flora, C.B. “Extension and Place: Reducing Transaction Costs for Better Communities.” Rural Development News. Vol. 24, No. 3.

Flora, C.B. “A Vision for Rural America Word and World: Theology for Christian Ministry,” Vol. 20, No. 2: 170-178.

Flora, C.B. “Market, State and Civil Society: Creating Advocacy Action Coalitions for Rural Development.” Rural Development News. Vol. 24, No. 2.

Flora, C.B. “National Research Council's Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture.” Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

Gasteyer, S.P. and C.B. Flora. “A Common Source: Comparing Community Water Quality Protection Initiatives in Rising Tide: Community Development Tools, Models, and Processes.” Rural and Small Town Programme Press. Pp 10-25.

Gibbs, Kathy, Vernon Ryan, Kathlene Larson, and Lori Merritt. “City of Boone: 2001 Community Survey.” Iowa State University. December 2001. CD-DIAL-134.

Goudy, Willis and Sandra Charvat Burke. *Majority and Minority Residents in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-11. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.

Goudy, Willis and Sandra Charvat Burke. *Black or African American Residents of Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-7. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. *Population Change, Natural Change, and Net Migration in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 to 2000. CS2001-6. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. *Population 18 or Older and 17 or Younger in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-5. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 3 pages.

Goudy, Willis and Margaret Hanson. *Population in Iowa’s Incorporated Places, 1990 and 2000. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 8 pages.

Goudy, Willis and Sandra Charvat Burke. *Population in Iowa’s Counties, 1990 and 2000. CS2001-2. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Goudy, Willis. *Population Counts for Iowa and Other States: 1990-2000 Censuses. CS2001-1. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Goudy, Willis and Margie Hanson. ** Summary of Iowa’s Incorporated Places, 1850-2000. Census Services, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages.

Morton, L.W. Resident-led Watershed Management. ISU, University Extension PM 1869.

Ryan, Vernon. “Study of a Proposed Villages Community Center: Van Buren County.” Iowa State University. December 2001. CD-DIAL-140.

Ryan, Vernon, Lori Merritt and Jeremy Judkins. “Story County Conservation Board Survey.” Iowa State University. November 2001. CD-DIAL-133.

Tweeten, L.G. and C.B. Flora. “Vertical Coordination of Agriculture in Farming-Dependent Areas.” Ames, IA: Council for Agricultural Sciences and Technology Task Force Report No. 137.

Woodman, William F. “The Clinic in Every Home: Needs Assessment, Barriers and Opportunities.” Project Report for the Clinic in Every Home Project funded by NIH and Iowa Department of Health with the College of Medicine, University of Iowa.