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Richelle L. Winkler

Richelle L. Winkler

Introduction

Richelle Winkler is a research social scientist in the Rural Economy Branch of the Resource and Rural Economics Division.

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.

Education

Richelle holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010), with foci on demography and environmental sociology and a doctoral minor in forest ecology and management. She earned an MS in sociology/rural sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and a BS in sociology from the University of South Carolina in 1999.

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.