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Cornelia Butler Flora
Researcher at Iowa State University
Publications - 159
Citations - 6952
Cornelia Butler Flora is an academic researcher from Iowa State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainability & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 151 publications receiving 6270 citations. Previous affiliations of Cornelia Butler Flora include Virginia Tech & Ford Foundation.
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Spiraling-Up: Mapping Community Transformation with Community Capitals Framework
Mary Emery,Cornelia Butler Flora +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) to look at community change from a systems perspective and find that social capital is the critical resource that reversed the downward spiral of loss to an upward spiral of hope.
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Rural Communities: Legacy and Change.
Thomas A. Lyson,Cornelia Butler Flora,Jan L. Flora,Jacqueline D. Spears,Louis E. Swanson,Mark B. Lapping,Mark Weinberg +6 more
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Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems
Charles Francis,Geir Lieblein,Steve Gliessman,Tor Arvid Breland,Nancy G. Creamer,R. Harwood,Lennart Salomonsson,Juha Helenius,D. Rickerl,Ricardo J. Salvador,Mary H. Wiedenhoeft,Steve R. Simmons,P. Allen,Miguel A. Altieri,Cornelia Butler Flora,R. P. Poincelot +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define agroecology as the ecology of food systems and provide a framework that will guide research, education, and action in the multiple and interacting facets of an increasingly complex global agriculture and food system.
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Rural Communities: Legacy And Change
TL;DR: In this article, the transformation of community capital in a changing world is discussed, and the importance of place in rural communities is discussed as a critical component of rural communities. But the authors do not discuss the role of government in this transformation.
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Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification
Jules Pretty,Tim G. Benton,Zareen Pervez Bharucha,Lynn V. Dicks,Cornelia Butler Flora,H. Charles J. Godfray,Dave Goulson,Susan E. Hartley,Nic Lampkin,Carol Morris,Gary Pierzynski,Gary Pierzynski,P. V. Vara Prasad,John P. Reganold,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Pete Smith,Peter J. Thorne,Steve D. Wratten +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, sustainable intensification of agricultural systems offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural and natural capital outcomes, but system redesign is essential to deliver optimum outcomes as ecological and economic conditions change.