Background
Richelle joined ERS in July 2023. Before joining ERS, she was a professor of sociology and demography at Michigan Technological University. Her research focuses on rural population changes in relation to social, economic, and environmental well-being and on population-environment relationships.
Professional Affiliations
Winkler is a member of the Rural Sociological Society, the Population Association of America, and the International Association for Society and Natural Resources. She is also an active member of the Rural Population Research Network.
Selected Publications
Winkler, R. L., & Rouleau, M. D. (2021). Amenities or disamenities? Estimating the impacts of extreme heat and wildfire on domestic US migration. Population and Environment, 42, 622–648.
Golding, S. A., & Winkler, R. L. (2020). Tracking urbanization and exurbs: Migration across the rural–urban continuum, 1990–2016. Population Research and Policy Review, 39, 835–859.
Winkler, R. L., & Matarrita-Cascante, D. (2020). Exporting consumption: lifestyle migration and energy use. Global Environmental Change, 61, 102026.
Winkler, R., & Warnke, K. (2013). The future of hunting: an age-period-cohort analysis of deer hunter decline. Population and Environment, 34, 460–480.
Winkler, R., Field, D. R., Luloff, A. E., Krannich, R. S., & Williams, T. (2007). Social landscapes of the inter‐mountain West: a comparison of 'old West' and 'new West' communities. Rural Sociology, 72(3), 478–501.
