The Sustainable Rangeland Roundtable has as its mission to promote the use of ecological, social, and economic indicators of sustainability. These "three legs of the sustainability stool" must be in rough balance for a system to be considered sustainable. In this section, we will examine the social and economic indicators for use in a ranch planning framework. There are only a few indicators that would need to be measured and monitored over time. However, there are many questions that a ranch family should ask themselves related to what their individual, family, and business goals are. The answer to these kinds of questions provides the context within which the social and economic monitoring data can be interpreted.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.