Assessing a farm's sustainability: insights from resilience thinking

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The role of multi-actor governance in aligning farm modernization and sustainable rural development (2017, background): “The dynamics of change in agriculture and rural development are closely related and to understand them we need to adopt a systems approach (Darnhofer et al., 2010; Sinclair et al., 2014).”
Exploring agency beyond humans: the compatibility of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and resilience thinking (2014, background): “Westley et al. (2002) and Davidson (2010), for instance, reveal that social systems comprise features such as symbolic constructions and reflexivity that are unique to humans.”
An integrated sustainability assessment of mediterranean sheep farms with different degrees of intensification (2012, background): “Policies that focus only on reducing the environmental impacts of production systems do not ensure the economic and social reproducibility of the farms (Bezlepkina et al., 2011; Darnhofer et al., 2010b).”
Resilience and why it matters for farm management (2014, background): “These led to management approaches which seek to reduce variability and change to facilitate efficient commodity production (Holling and Meffe, 1996; Darnhofer et al., 2010b; Schiere et al., 2012).”