Annual Conference and Members Meeting

October 15, 2010

Scottish Rite Consistory in Downtown Des Moines

 

Lois WRight Morton

Barriers to Implementing Sustainable Farm Practices - A Policy Perspective
Panel Facilitator: Lois Wright Morton, Ph.D.
Interim Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, at Iowa State University

At the Iowa Environmental 2010 conference, Dr. Morton will facilitate a panel of policy experts, to explore current failures of farm policies and possible solutions.

Dr. Wright Morton’s areas of research include civic structure, rural communities, rural quality of life, natural resource management, community based watershed management, and population health. She is project director for two USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture funded projects: The Heartland Regional Water Quality Coordination Initiative (2004-2008; 2008-2012) and Developing Local Leadership & Extension Capacity for Performance-based Agricultural Environmental Management (2008-2011). This research builds on a prior USDA funded project, Educational Program to Increase Citizens’ Responsibility for Management of Agricultural Watersheds (2004-2008) which she directed.

Wright Morton has authored/co-authored two books with a third, Pathways for Getting to Better Water Quality : The Citizen Effect which is in press by Springer Science+Business (available November 2010). She has published over 42 refereed journal articles and book chapters, 17 of which are specifically water and natural resource related. In addition to her research, Dr. Morton has responsibility for ISU Extension Agriculture &Natural Resource programming and teaches the graduate course, Sociology of the Environment.

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