Program Highlights: Social Responsibility Initiative
SRI Outreach and Engagement
Outreach Reports
Bean Smith, Molly, Jeff S. Sharp, and Melanie Miller. 2006. (forthcoming) “Motivated Consumer Attitudes about Food, Health, and Farming: A Topical Report from the 2005 Survey of Motivated Food Consumers.”
Bowman, Brandi and Tomas M. Koontz. 2005. “Citizen Participation in Ohio Watershed Groups.” Columbus: Environmental Communications, Analysis, and Research for Policy Working Group, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University. ecarp.osu.edu/
Fleishman, Rachel and Tomas M. Koontz. 2005. “Watershed Groups in Ohio: Resources, Activities, and Accomplishments.” Columbus: Environmental Communications, Analysis, and Research for Policy Working Group, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University. ecarp.osu.edu/
Kendall, Holli. 2006. (forthcoming) “Ohio’s Dairy Industry.” Publication on the state of Ohio’s dairy industry to be used by Ohio State University Extension.
Nikolic, Sara and Tomas M. Koontz. 2005. “Government Involvement in Communitybased, Collaborative Watershed Management: A Study of the Ohio Watershed Coordinator Grant Program.” Columbus: Environmental Communications, Analysis, and Research for Policy Working Group, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University. ecarp.osu.edu/
Rauch, Andrew, Molly Bean Smith, and Jeff S. Sharp. 2005. “Ohioans’ Attitudes about Local and Organic Foods.” Topical Report from the 2004 Ohio Survey of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Issues. Columbus, Ohio: Department of Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University. 8 pages.
Rauch, Andrew and Jeff S. Sharp. 2005. “Ohioans Attitudes about Animal Welfare.” A Topical Report from the 2004 Ohio Survey of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Issues. Columbus, Ohio: Department of Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University. 4 pages.
Sharp, Jeff S. and Andrew Rauch. 2005. “Summary Report: 2004 Ohio Survey of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Issues.” Columbus, Ohio: Department of Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University. 8 pages.
Selected Outreach Presentations
Molly Bean Smith. “Ohio Organic and Local Food Consumers.” Presentation at the 2006 Ohio Fruit and Vegetable Congress, Columbus, Ohio, January 2006.
Molly Bean Smith. “Support for Local and Organic Foods.” Presentation to the Christopher Program, Columbus, Ohio, April 2006.
Molly Bean Smith. “Support for Local and Organic Foods in Ohio.” Presentation to Central Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club, Columbus, Ohio, November 2005.
Doug Doohan, Neal H. Hooker, Jeff LeJeune, and Mark Tucker. 2006b. “A risk analysis approach to educating farmers about invasive and recalcitrant weeds.” Science Society of America Abstracts 46:230
Douglas Doohan, Neal H. Hooker, Jeff LeJeune, and Mark Tucker. 2006a. “Saving the World with Risk Analysis and Rational Weed Management Decisions.” Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting and 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Weed Science Society of America. New York, N.Y. February 13-16.
William Flinn. “The Importance of Social Responsibility in Food, Agriculture, and Environment.” Sertoma Meeting, Upper Arlington, Ohio, November 2005. William Flinn. Presentation on Large Dairy Farms to the Dairy Working Group, Plumb Hall, April 2005.
William Flinn. Presentation on SRI to the Sustainable Agricultural Group, Ohio Farm Bureau, April 2005.
William Flinn and Robert J. Birkenholz. Presentation to the Dean’s Cabinet on the Progress of the SRI Initiative, Agricultural Administration Building, The Ohio State University, April 2005.
William Flinn and Robert J. Birkenholz. Presentation to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center cabinet on the Large Dairy Farm Project, Wooster, Ohio, February 2005.
William Flinn, Tim Demland, and Dave Gobey. Presentation on Dutch Dairy Farms to Cecelia Conway, director of Vebra-Hoff, in Wauseon, Ohio, April 2005.
Cornelia Flora and Linda Lobao. “Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century.” North Central Region Experiment Station Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 2005.
Scott Hardy and Tomas M. Koontz. 2006. “Not So Eerie Anymore? The Promise of Collaborative Watershed Management in the Lake Erie Basin.” Paper delivered at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, N.M., March 16-18.
Neal H. Hooker, Douglas Doohan, Jeff LeJeune, and Mark Tucker. 2006. “Fostering Collaboration in Risk Analysis: An Introduction.” Paper presented at Fostering Collaboration in Risk Analysis. Columbus, Ohio. May 17.
Neal H. Hooker, Mark Tucker, Douglas Doohan, and Jeff LeJeune. 2006. “Saving the World with Risk Analysis: The Role of Economics.” Paper presented at Integrated Risk Studies: Gate to Plate. Fargo, N.D. May 4-5.
Holli Kendall. “Class Dimensions of Stratification and Attitudes toward Animals.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 2005.
Holli Kendall and Jeff S. Sharp. “Ohioans’ Views of Livestock and Animal Welfare.” Keynote presentation to the United Poultry Concerns 6th Annual Forum, Columbus, Ohio, April 2006.
Tomas M. Koontz. 2006. “Citizens, Governments, and Collaboration: A Framework for Analyzing Government Roles in Collaborative Environmental Management.” International Symposium on Society and Resources Management, Vancouver, Canada, June 3-8.
Tomas M. Koontz. 2005. “Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government?” Research presentation at the Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium, Sedona, Ariz., November 17-19.
Tomas M. Koontz. 2005. “Why Participate? The Collective Interest Model and Citizen Participation in Watershed Groups.” Paper delivered at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., September 1-4.
Linda Lobao. “Decentralization and the Neo-Liberal Roll-Out: Are Communities Racing to the Bottom?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pa., August 2005.
Linda Lobao. “Devolution at the Subnational Scale.” Paper presented at the meetings of the International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy. Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill., September 2005.
Linda Lobao. “Spatial Inequality: A Comparative Subnational Approach.” Geographic Information Systems and Population Science Workshop funded by the National Institute of Health, The Pennsylvania State University, June 2005.
Jeff Sharp. “Characterizing Local and Organic Consumers.” Presentation to Ohio Direct Marketing Agricultural Conference. Toledo, Ohio, January 2005.
Jeff Sharp. “What Ohioans are Thinking about Food, Agriculture, and the Environment.” Presentation to AEDE Appalachian Outlook, Jackson, Ohio, March 2005.
Jeff Sharp, Molly Bean Smith, and Shoshanah Inwood. “Characterizing Local and Organic Food Consumers.” Presentation at the 2005 Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association Annual Conference, Johnstown, Ohio, March 2005.
Jeff Sharp and Bob Furbee. “Review of 2004 Ohio Survey of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Issues.” Presentation to OSU Extension Administrative Cabinet, Columbus, Ohio, February 2005.
Mark Tucker, Joy Ewing, and Robert J. Birkenholz. “Central Ohio Newspaper Coverage of Large-Scale Livestock Issues.” Proceedings of the North Central Region Research Agricultural Education Research Conference. Columbus, Ohio, September 2005.
Scholarly Publications
Sonnell, Joseph E. and Tomas M. Koontz. In press. “Stumbling Forward: The Organizational Challenges of Building and Sustaining Collaborative Watershed Management.” Society and Natural Resources.
Kendall, Holli, Linda Lobao, and Jeff Sharp. 2006. Forthcoming. “Public Concern with Animal Well-Being: Place, Social Structural Location, and Individual Experience.” Rural Sociology 71(3).
Koontz, Tomas M. 2006. “Collaboration for Sustainability? A Framework for Analyzing Government Impacts in Collaborative Environmental Management.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 2(1): ejournal.nbii.org/progress/index.html
Sharp, Jeff S. and Mark Tucker. 2005. “Awareness and Concern about Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry: Results from a Statewide Survey of Ohioans.” Rural Sociology 70(2): 208-228.
Smith, Molly Bean and Jeff S. Sharp. 2005. “Growth, Development, and Farming in an Ohio Exurban Region.” Environment and Behavior 37:565-579.
Whaley, S. R., M. Tucker, and J. Sharp. 2006. “Consumer perceptions of food-related risks.” International Journal of Food Science and Technology 41: 135-146.
Grant Activity
OARDC SEEDS — Interdisciplinary Team. “Farm Animal Welfare in Ohio: Assessing Public Concern and Implications for the Food Animal Industry.” Investigators are Linda Lobao, Grahame Coleman, Maurice Eastridge, Paul Hemsworth, Jeff Sharp, and Normand St-Pierre. The project will provide the first detailed information on U.S. attitudes and behavior regarding farm animal welfare, and the first systematic research on the food animal industry’s response to current public concern about adoption of animal welfare-related practices.
OARDC SEEDS — Interdisciplinary Team. “Enhancing Agricultural and Food Safety through Risk Analysis” by Doug Doohan, Neal H. Hooker, Mark Tucker, and Jeff LeJeune. Two cases (Apple of Peru and therapeutic use of antibiotics in dairy cattle) will focus on the ability of risk-analysis strategies to change producer behavior. Grant period: 3/06 — 2/08, $100,000.
NCR-SARE: “Sustaining the Family Farm at the Rural Urban Interface: Farm Succession Processes of Alternative Food and Agricultural Enterprises and Traditional Commodity Farmers.” Submitted and Funded for $9,995. Shoshana Inwood and Jeff S. Sharp.
Rural Sociological Society: “The Structural and Individual Bases of People’s Attitudes Toward Animals: Linking Social Inequality and Concern for Animal Well-Being.” Submitted for $6,645. Holli Kendall.
Rural Sociological Society: “Sustaining the Family Farm at the Rural Urban Interface: Farm Succession Processes of Alternative Food and Agricultural Enterprises and Traditional Commodity Farmers.” Submitted for $5,774. Shoshana Inwood.
Social Responsibility Initiative, OSU. “Support for Agricultural Risk Analysis Program” by Neal H. Hooker, Doug Doohan, Jeff LeJeune, and Mark Tucker. Risk analysis capabilities and training are supported. Grant period: 11/05 — 12/06, $19,000.
USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants Program: “Training in the Sustainable Sciences through an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Rural Sociology (IGPRS).” Submitted for $231,000. William Flinn and Robert J. Birkenholz.
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