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    1. An approach to introducing change in organizations or communities

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Byrnes, Francis C. (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes9; Folder: MSU Ph.D files Document Number: D09117
    Notes:
    Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Adapted from material developed by George Beal and Joe M. Bohlen, Ph.D files, Michigan State University, East Lansing. 4 pages.

    3. Keith Douglass Warner, Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture Through Social Networks

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    McKelvey, Bill (author)
    Format:
    Book review
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    USA: Springer
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28911
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Journal Title Details:
    (2008) 25: 615-616

    4. Social sustainability in agriculture – A system-based framework

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Janker, Judith (author), Mann, Stefan (author), and Rist, Stephan (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-01-01
    Published:
    Netherlands: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12237
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Rural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 65
    Notes:
    11 pages, Sustainability has become a key term for linking environmental, economic and social issues, in both the sciences and politics. Conceptions and frameworks of sustainability have thus arisen to evaluate agricultural systems on their sustainability. Within these conceptions and in political and scientific discourses, what can be understood as the social pillar of sustainability in agriculture varies greatly, especially in regards to the scope and the sustainability standards applied. While rural inhabitants have been subject of various ‘sustainability studies’, the consideration of the social dimension in agriculture is still rather underrepresented. Our conceptual framework can contribute to enhance the understanding of the social dimension of sustainability by utilizing a social science-based approach to comprehend the complexity of social interaction in agriculture: Based on Parsons' system approach, we capture the components of a social system that encompasses agriculture and its embeddedness in society. This includes all major actors, their interactions and institutions. Further, we develop Maslow's hierarchy of needs as well as the rights approach into a sustainability scale. We call the conceptual framework the sustainable agricultural social system. This general framework can later be adapted to local cultural and social settings, serving as a more comprehensive and flexible sustainability framework.