Jessica D Ulrich-Schad
Biographic Data
| ID | 153350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica D Ulrich-Schad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ulrich-Schad |
| SIGNATURE | ULRICH-SCHAD J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2437-5419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Weaving nostalgia into sense of place
Reimagining rangeland research
Using a Modified Drop-Off/Pick-Up Survey to Reduce Costs and Increase Response Rates
Beyond the productivist ideal
Amenity migration is reshaping rural agrifood systems as a growing number of Land Steward Amenity Migrants (LSAMs) acquire ranches primarily for ecological restoration, lifestyle fulfillment, and intergenerational legacy rather than commodity production. Guided by the Rangeland Socio-Ecological Framework (RSEF), we conducted qualitative interviews with 16 LSAMs across Texas to examine the drivers shaping their management decisions. Analysis revea…
Your neighbors are new every week”
Amenity driven in-migration, seasonal home ownership, and tourism are long standing processes impacting housing affordability and community wellbeing in high natural amenity rural communities. Short-term rental (STR) accommodations, such as Airbnb and Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO), are a relatively new phenomenon that can further limit housing options for full-time residents and members of the seasonal workforce. There is tremendous variation …
Utah producers and soil health
While the importance of soil health has been widely documented in certain areas of the U.S., such as the Midwest and Great Plains, other agricultural lands and producers remain largely understudied regarding soil health, including those in the Intermountain West (IMW). In this field report, we dig deeper into differing viewpoints on soil health held by Utah producers, examining how those more and less open to soil health efforts compare in variou…
Managing beyond water
In contemporary, natural resources dependent and specialized communities, community well-being is connected to the environment. Understanding the local connections between community well-being and the environment can provide a more complete understanding of how to manage social-ecological systems and promote community resilience. Herein, we combine semi-structured community well-being interviews with hydrologic modeling using the variable infiltr…
Community-Level Food Sovereignty and Wellbeing in the Upper Yakima River Basin
Food sovereignty, a framework focused on systemic change in the food system that accounts for food access, food justice, and food security, is an important driver of community wellbeing. However, the complex determinants of food sovereignty are not fully understood. Interdisciplinary assessments of food systems are needed to establish the impact of socioeconomic status, race, gender, and other social identities on food access. Understanding the g…
Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post-Covid-19 Pandemic☆
Amenity migration in the Intermountain West is a rapidly evolving process that has greatly impacted wellbeing in many rural communities over the past several decades. While the impacts of amenity migration have been discussed through both individual community case studies and cross-community comparative analysis, there is an ongoing need for research that continues to build upon our understanding of amenity migration's effects on individual and c…
Unveiling Perspectives and Insights
Existing literature on the intersection of environmental sociology (ES) and natural resource sociology (NRS) suggests that a better understanding of the diverse perceptions, experiences, and practices of individual researchers in these subfields are informative in understanding the trajectory of environmental and natural resource sociologies including where more convergence might occur. We present the descriptive results of an online survey of me…
Testing the Affect of Modified Sense of Place, Conservation Ethic, and Good Farmer Identity Measures on Predicting the Adoption of Cover Crops in Working Landscapes in Iowa
While sense of place (SOP) has been used in amenity landscapes to understand pro-environmental behavior, in working landscapes, SOP has not been a valid or reliable predictor for explaining conservation behavior. In this paper, we advance theory on SOP in working landscapes by assessing the relationship between several new and modified sense of place measures and farmer adoption of cover crops in Iowa. We used data from a 2018 survey of Iowa farm…
We’re very late to the party”
How does co-produced research influence adaptive capacity? Lessons from a cross-case comparison
An Inventory and Assessment of Sample Sources for Survey Research with Agricultural Producers in the U.S
Researchers need probability samples to collect representative survey data about the behaviors and attitudes of agricultural producers they study in relation to the natural resources that they manage, yet obtaining accurate and complete sampling frames is challenging. We extract data from a publication database to identify the most commonly used sampling frame sources in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., finding that governme…
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States
Rural residents in the United States do not always agree on local development priorities, yet understanding and accounting for their preferences is a step towards more effective and equitable community development. We use survey data spanning different types of rural Intermountain West communities to gauge residents' preference weights for economic and environmental rural development goals. Given that community tenure and age are often related to…
The Goldilocks view
The Forest in the Future
In this commentary, we highlight some of the strengths of the bibliometric analysis conducted by Qin et al. that examines the relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies through citation networks, coauthorship, and keyword usage. We also suggest some ways that the analysis could be expanded or built upon, and ideas for further distinct, but related, inquiry. We also reflect on our own identification, training, and mentori…
The urgency of transforming the Midwestern U.S. landscape into more than corn and soybean
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
Measuring farmer conservation behaviors
Culture Clash? Predictors of Views on Amenity-Led Development and Community Involvement in Rural Recreation Counties
Development is contentious in high-amenity rural areas experiencing migration-driven population growth. While some residents welcome the associated economic, demographic, and social changes, others resist these changes. Using survey data, we examine the predictors of views on amenity-led development in rural recreation counties across the United States, including to what extent there is evidence of a 'culture clash,' that is, whether values and a…
People and places left behind
Using interview and survey data, we argue there are three types of places in the rural United States, and that their social and economic conditions help us understand emerging political trends, including the rural support for Donald Trump. More rural votes were cast for the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 than in other recent elections, yet shifts to Republican votes were greatest in places undergoing the most significant economic trans…
A Comparison of Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage of Water Quality Conservation Practices Between Amish and Non-Amish Farmers
This study provides a unique examination of Amish farmers’ awareness of water quality issues and their attitudes toward and use of agricultural conservation practices compared with small non-Amish farmers in Northeastern Indiana. There is minimal research about the conservation beliefs and behaviors of this growing and highly diverse ethnoreligious minority, who have faith-based technological restrictions and are often hesitant to work with commu…
Out-of-state, out of mind? Non-operating farmland owners and conservation decision making
People and places left behind
Using interview and survey data, we argue there are three types of places in the rural United States, and that their social and economic conditions help us understand emerging political trends, including the rural support for Donald Trump. More rural votes were cast for the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 than in other recent elections, yet shifts to Republican votes were greatest in places undergoing the most significant economic trans…
The Role of Community Assessments, Place, and the Great Recession in the Migration Intentions of Rural Americans
Many rural areas of the United States are experiencing population decline due to out-migration. However, others-especially those places rich in natural amenities and recreational opportunities-are attracting new residents and losing less of their native population. In this article we investigate the predictors of rural Americans' migration intentions by examining how individual-level community assessments, including community attachment and perce…
Culture Clash? Predictors of Views on Amenity-Led Development and Community Involvement in Rural Recreation Counties
Development is contentious in high-amenity rural areas experiencing migration-driven population growth. While some residents welcome the associated economic, demographic, and social changes, others resist these changes. Using survey data, we examine the predictors of views on amenity-led development in rural recreation counties across the United States, including to what extent there is evidence of a 'culture clash,' that is, whether values and a…
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
In the Wake of the Spill
Objectives We analyze patterns in environmental views of G ulf C oast residents, in the wake of the 2010 oil spill. To what extent do spill‐related and other environmental views vary with individual characteristics, personal experience with the spill, or characteristics of place? Methods About 2,000 residents of selected coastal regions in L ouisiana and F lorida were interviewed by telephone in late summer 2010. Results One‐quarter of the respon…
The urgency of transforming the Midwestern U.S. landscape into more than corn and soybean
Recreational amenities, rural migration patterns, and the Great Recession
Out-of-state, out of mind? Non-operating farmland owners and conservation decision making
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States
Rural residents in the United States do not always agree on local development priorities, yet understanding and accounting for their preferences is a step towards more effective and equitable community development. We use survey data spanning different types of rural Intermountain West communities to gauge residents' preference weights for economic and environmental rural development goals. Given that community tenure and age are often related to…
Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post-Covid-19 Pandemic☆
Amenity migration in the Intermountain West is a rapidly evolving process that has greatly impacted wellbeing in many rural communities over the past several decades. While the impacts of amenity migration have been discussed through both individual community case studies and cross-community comparative analysis, there is an ongoing need for research that continues to build upon our understanding of amenity migration's effects on individual and c…
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
Measuring farmer conservation behaviors
The Forest in the Future
In this commentary, we highlight some of the strengths of the bibliometric analysis conducted by Qin et al. that examines the relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies through citation networks, coauthorship, and keyword usage. We also suggest some ways that the analysis could be expanded or built upon, and ideas for further distinct, but related, inquiry. We also reflect on our own identification, training, and mentori…
The Goldilocks view
A Comparison of Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage of Water Quality Conservation Practices Between Amish and Non-Amish Farmers
This study provides a unique examination of Amish farmers’ awareness of water quality issues and their attitudes toward and use of agricultural conservation practices compared with small non-Amish farmers in Northeastern Indiana. There is minimal research about the conservation beliefs and behaviors of this growing and highly diverse ethnoreligious minority, who have faith-based technological restrictions and are often hesitant to work with commu…
In the Wake of the Spill
Objectives We analyze patterns in environmental views of G ulf C oast residents, in the wake of the 2010 oil spill. To what extent do spill‐related and other environmental views vary with individual characteristics, personal experience with the spill, or characteristics of place? Methods About 2,000 residents of selected coastal regions in L ouisiana and F lorida were interviewed by telephone in late summer 2010. Results One‐quarter of the respon…
The Role of Community Assessments, Place, and the Great Recession in the Migration Intentions of Rural Americans
Many rural areas of the United States are experiencing population decline due to out-migration. However, others-especially those places rich in natural amenities and recreational opportunities-are attracting new residents and losing less of their native population. In this article we investigate the predictors of rural Americans' migration intentions by examining how individual-level community assessments, including community attachment and perce…
Recreational amenities, rural migration patterns, and the Great Recession
Out-of-state, out of mind? Non-operating farmland owners and conservation decision making
A Comparison of Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage of Water Quality Conservation Practices Between Amish and Non-Amish Farmers
This study provides a unique examination of Amish farmers’ awareness of water quality issues and their attitudes toward and use of agricultural conservation practices compared with small non-Amish farmers in Northeastern Indiana. There is minimal research about the conservation beliefs and behaviors of this growing and highly diverse ethnoreligious minority, who have faith-based technological restrictions and are often hesitant to work with commu…
Measuring farmer conservation behaviors
Culture Clash? Predictors of Views on Amenity-Led Development and Community Involvement in Rural Recreation Counties
Development is contentious in high-amenity rural areas experiencing migration-driven population growth. While some residents welcome the associated economic, demographic, and social changes, others resist these changes. Using survey data, we examine the predictors of views on amenity-led development in rural recreation counties across the United States, including to what extent there is evidence of a 'culture clash,' that is, whether values and a…
People and places left behind
Using interview and survey data, we argue there are three types of places in the rural United States, and that their social and economic conditions help us understand emerging political trends, including the rural support for Donald Trump. More rural votes were cast for the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 than in other recent elections, yet shifts to Republican votes were greatest in places undergoing the most significant economic trans…
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
The Goldilocks view
The Forest in the Future
In this commentary, we highlight some of the strengths of the bibliometric analysis conducted by Qin et al. that examines the relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies through citation networks, coauthorship, and keyword usage. We also suggest some ways that the analysis could be expanded or built upon, and ideas for further distinct, but related, inquiry. We also reflect on our own identification, training, and mentori…
The urgency of transforming the Midwestern U.S. landscape into more than corn and soybean
How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
How does co-produced research influence adaptive capacity? Lessons from a cross-case comparison
An Inventory and Assessment of Sample Sources for Survey Research with Agricultural Producers in the U.S
Researchers need probability samples to collect representative survey data about the behaviors and attitudes of agricultural producers they study in relation to the natural resources that they manage, yet obtaining accurate and complete sampling frames is challenging. We extract data from a publication database to identify the most commonly used sampling frame sources in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., finding that governme…
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States
Rural residents in the United States do not always agree on local development priorities, yet understanding and accounting for their preferences is a step towards more effective and equitable community development. We use survey data spanning different types of rural Intermountain West communities to gauge residents' preference weights for economic and environmental rural development goals. Given that community tenure and age are often related to…
Testing the Affect of Modified Sense of Place, Conservation Ethic, and Good Farmer Identity Measures on Predicting the Adoption of Cover Crops in Working Landscapes in Iowa
While sense of place (SOP) has been used in amenity landscapes to understand pro-environmental behavior, in working landscapes, SOP has not been a valid or reliable predictor for explaining conservation behavior. In this paper, we advance theory on SOP in working landscapes by assessing the relationship between several new and modified sense of place measures and farmer adoption of cover crops in Iowa. We used data from a 2018 survey of Iowa farm…
We’re very late to the party”
Unveiling Perspectives and Insights
Existing literature on the intersection of environmental sociology (ES) and natural resource sociology (NRS) suggests that a better understanding of the diverse perceptions, experiences, and practices of individual researchers in these subfields are informative in understanding the trajectory of environmental and natural resource sociologies including where more convergence might occur. We present the descriptive results of an online survey of me…
Reimagining rangeland research
Using a Modified Drop-Off/Pick-Up Survey to Reduce Costs and Increase Response Rates
Beyond the productivist ideal
Amenity migration is reshaping rural agrifood systems as a growing number of Land Steward Amenity Migrants (LSAMs) acquire ranches primarily for ecological restoration, lifestyle fulfillment, and intergenerational legacy rather than commodity production. Guided by the Rangeland Socio-Ecological Framework (RSEF), we conducted qualitative interviews with 16 LSAMs across Texas to examine the drivers shaping their management decisions. Analysis revea…
Your neighbors are new every week”
Amenity driven in-migration, seasonal home ownership, and tourism are long standing processes impacting housing affordability and community wellbeing in high natural amenity rural communities. Short-term rental (STR) accommodations, such as Airbnb and Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO), are a relatively new phenomenon that can further limit housing options for full-time residents and members of the seasonal workforce. There is tremendous variation …
Utah producers and soil health
While the importance of soil health has been widely documented in certain areas of the U.S., such as the Midwest and Great Plains, other agricultural lands and producers remain largely understudied regarding soil health, including those in the Intermountain West (IMW). In this field report, we dig deeper into differing viewpoints on soil health held by Utah producers, examining how those more and less open to soil health efforts compare in variou…
Managing beyond water
In contemporary, natural resources dependent and specialized communities, community well-being is connected to the environment. Understanding the local connections between community well-being and the environment can provide a more complete understanding of how to manage social-ecological systems and promote community resilience. Herein, we combine semi-structured community well-being interviews with hydrologic modeling using the variable infiltr…
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