Dr. Leslie Duram

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Program

duram@siu.edu

 
     
 

Publications:

A.  Books:

Duram, L.A. 2004. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works. University of Nebraska Press.

B.  Articles in Peer-Reviewed Professional Journals:

Published

Duram, L.A., T. Ray, and J. Bathgate. 2004. Historical Land Use Change in Southern Illinois: 1807, 1938, and 1993. Professional Geographer 56(1):127-40.

Bathgate, J. and L. Duram. 2003. A GIS Landscape Classification Model to Enhance Soil Survey. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 58(3): 119-127

Ruhl, J.B., C. Lant, C., S. Kraft, J. Adams, L. Duram, and T. Loftus. 2003. Proposal for a Model State Watershed Management Act. Environmental Law (Lewis & Clark Law School) 37(4): Forthcoming.

Duram, L.A. and K. Larson.  2001.  Agricultural Research and Alternative Farmers’ Information Needs.  The Professional Geographer 53(1):  84-96.

Larson, K. and Duram, L.A.  2001.  Information Dissemination in Alternative Agricultural Research:  An Analysis of Researchers.  American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 15(4):  171-180.

Duram, L.A.  2000.  Agents Perceptions Of Structure:  How Illinois Organic Farmers View Political, Economic, and Social Factors.  Agriculture and Human Values 17(1): 35-47.

Duram, L.A.  1999. Factors in Organic Farmers’ Decisionmaking: Diversity, Challenge, and Obstacles.  American Journal of Alternative Agriculture  14(1):2-10.

Duram, L.A. and K.G. Brown.  1999.  An Assessment of Public Participation in Federally Funded Watershed Planning Initiatives.  Society and Natural Resources  12:455-467.

Duram, L.A.  1998.  Organic Agriculture in the United States:  Current Status and Future Regulation.  Choices:  Food, Farm and Resource Issues (American Agricultural Economics Association)  2nd Quarter:34-38.

Duram, L.A.  1998.  Taking a Pragmatic Behavioral Approach to Alternative Agriculture Research.  American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 13(2):92-97.

Duram, L.A.  1997.  A Pragmatic Study of Conventional and Alternative Farmers in Colorado, The Professional Geographer 49(2):202-213. 

Duram, L.A.  1997.  Characteristics of US Organic Farming:  An Illinois Case Study, Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society 39(2):26-34.

Bohren, L., W.E. Riebsame, and L.A. Duram.  1996.  Central Great Plains Land Use/Cover Modeling Project:  A Pilot Study in Northeastern Colorado, High Plains Applied Anthropologist 16(1):19-28.

Duram, L.A.  1995.  Public Land Management: The National Grasslands.  Part One: Historical Development; Part Two:  Case Study of Pawnee National Grassland; Part Three: Future Management Scenarios. Rangelands (Journal of the Society for Range Management) 17(2):36-42.

Duram, L.A.  1995.  Water Regulation Decisions in Central Kansas Affecting Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland and Neighboring Farmers.  Great Plains Research 5(1):1-19.   

C.  Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Professional Books:

Duram, L.A. and J. Clark Archer. 2004 forthcoming. Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use. In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, eds. G. Gaile and C. Willmott. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 22: 914-45.

Duram, L.A. and J. Clark Archer.  2002.  Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use.  In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, eds. G. Gaile and C. Willmott.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.  Forthcoming.

Duram, L.A.  1998.  Agroecological Behaviour: the Continuum from Conventional to Alternative Agriculture in Colorado, USA.  In Dimensions of Sustainable Rural Systems, eds. I. Bowler, C. Bryant, and P. Huigen, pp.69-80.  Groningen, The Netherlands:  Nederlandse Geografische Studies 244. 

Duram, L.A.  1997.  The Continuum from Conventional to Alternative Farmers in Colorado.  In Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability, eds. B. Ilbery, T. Rickard, and Q. Chiotti, pp. 153-166.  Wallingford, U.K.:  CAB International.

 
 
 

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