Richard S Krannich
Biographic Data
| ID | 263887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard S Krannich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard S |
| FAMILY NAME | Krannich |
| SIGNATURE | KRANNICH R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 785 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Climate Change Views, Energy Policy Support, and Personal Action in the Intermountain West
Reducing the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption is part of addressing climate change. Prior research finds political-economic factors shape climate change views, perceptions of and policy support for renewable and nonrenewable energy, and pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). This study contributes to research in these three areas by empirically testing the anti-reflexivity thesis, which posits that forces defending the indu…
An assessment of factors influencing bear viewing experiences on the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska called for an assessment of visitor experiences at the Frazer bear viewing area. A two-phase visitor survey in 2016 reached ≥74% of total Frazer bear viewers, achieving a 91% response rate (n = 506) for the intercept portion and a 43% response rate (n = 219) for the online portion. Analysis revealed that the number of bears and fish ladder structures were associated with high overall trip satisfaction…
At home, in public, and in between
Research in environmental sociology finds differences between men and women in the performance of pro-environmental behaviors, but gender effects change over time, and vary by location and type of pro-environmental behavior. Thus, research needs to explore gender differences in various pro-environmental behaviors across different contexts, in order to contribute to better understanding of the connections between sustainability and gender equity. …
Keep quiet on climate
Are Distinctions between “Environmental Sociology” and “Natural Resource Sociology” Real – and Important? Reactions to Qin et al.’s Seeing the Forest for the Trees
The bibliometric analysis presented by Qin et al. provides useful evidence regarding debates into whether there are meaningful distinctions between “environmental sociology” and “natural resource sociology.” This commentary focuses on selected aspects of their findings, and offers thoughts about the implications of distinctions between and apparently increased divergence of these sub-fields
Public views on renewable energy in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States
A Great Idea, Just Not Near Me!” Understanding Public Attitudes About Renewable Energy Facilities
Generally, the growth of renewable energy sources is supported by the American public. However, gaining acceptance of large-scale renewable energy projects from local residents is often difficult. Like many other states in the United States, Utah has several proposed, under construction, and operational renewable energy facilities and potential for significant renewable energy growth. However, several energy projects have been met with considerab…
The Influence of Religious Affiliation on Community Views about Environment, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in and around the Mormon Culture Region
While political ideology is a consistent predictor of public environmental views in the United States, religious affiliation may also be an important correlate of environmental attitudes, especially in regions with a majority denomination. Using data from a 2014 survey in five communities across Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming (n = 906) experiencing renewable energy development, we investigate the influence of religious affiliation on environmental beli…
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
The Emergence, Evolution, and Maturation of Natural Resource Social Science
As is true of all scientific fields, natural resource sociology and the array of allied social science disciplines that jointly address the interplay of human societies and biophysical environments
Introduction
A Multidimensional Exploration of the Foundations of Community Attachment among Seasonal and Year-Round Residents
Utah is a popular second-home destination because of its unique landscapes offering numerous natural amenities. This research utilized data from a mail survey of residents in six Utah counties and had two objectives: (1) to test a multidimensional conceptualization of community attachment and (2) to determine if the foundations of community attachment, based on those conceptual dimensions, are different for year-round and seasonal residents. The …
Social change in natural resource-based rural communities
Bonded to whom? Social interactions in a high-amenity rural setting
Beginning with Kasarda and Janowitz, several dimensions of community attachment have been theorized. The local social bonds or the interpersonal dimension of community attachment is reflected in social interaction with family, friends and neighbors. A current trend within the United States is the influx of seasonal residents into high-amenity areas. Whether this influx affects the types ofsocial bonds formed in such areas is an important and unan…
Arguments For What No One Wants
In this essay, the authors examine the public discourse of three different proponent groups (Native Americans, Industry, and Community Advocates) to gain insight into the narratives used to justify the decision to support a typically unwanted land use. The questions they ask are: first, who are the actors, what is their agency, and what is their purpose, as revealed through an analysis of the compiled text? Second, in what ways do their stories c…
Presidential Address Rural Sociology at the Crossroads
A complex array of socio-historical, demographic, and organizational factors have combined in recent years to threaten both the current status of and future prospects for the discipline of rural sociology, and for the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). This paper examines the somewhat problematic recent trajectories of the RSS as a professional organization and of rural sociology more generally and notes a degree of disciplinary and organizational…
Social Landscapes of the Inter-Mountain West
Rural communities have experienced dramatic demographic, social, and economic transformations over the past 30 years. Historically characterized by close links between natural resources and social, cultural, and economic structures, few of today's rural communities remain heavily dependent upon traditional extractive industries like ranching, forestry, and mining. New forms of development linked to natural and cultural amenities, including touris…
Identification With Resource-Based Occupations and Desire for Tourism
Occupational identity is frequently used to explain why rural residents traditionally involved in natural resource-based occupations have no interest in tourism activities as a form of economic development, with researchers arguing these residents view tourism as inconsistent with the cultural traditions associated with more traditional rural occupations such as logging, mining, or agriculture. However, the link between resource-based occupationa…
Community Participation in Rapidly Growing Communities in Southern Utah
Amenity-rich locations attract individuals searching for places to recreate, live, or retire. As a result, such areas, many of which are in the Western United States, experience changes related to population in-migration. Past research shows how the extensive in-migration of people with different values and perspectives can contribute to social conflict in affected communities. This study focuses on the relationship of community level indicators …
Community Attachments as Predictors of Local Environmental Concern
This article conceptualizes two distinct dimensions of community attachment-socially based attachment and attachment to a community's natural environment-and examines their connections with attitudes about local environmental issues. The findings indicate that the two dimensions of attachment are distinct and relate differently to environmental concern. In cases where the social attachment dimension is a statistically significant predictor of att…
Understanding the Multidimensionality of Property Rights Orientations
In the United States, the nature and limits of private property rights have been central themes in natural resource debates over issues such as rural land use control, public and private rangeland management, and endangered species preservation. In most of these debates, private property owners are characterized as favoring strong protection of private property rights and resisting efforts to condition their rights against the interests of societ…
Rural tourism and gendered nuances
The Boom‐Bust‐Recovery Cycle
To better understand the long‐term effects of rapid boom growth, we reexamine four subjective indicators of community satisfaction and social integration in Delta, Utah, that were originally analyzed by Brown, Geertsen, and Krannich in 1989. With 24 years of longitudinal data, we find that within approximately a decade of the boom period three of the four indicators returned to or exceeded pre‐boom levels. We argue that we need to modify our theo…
Dimensions of Community Attachment and Their Relationship to Well-Being in the Amenity-Rich Rural West
This research had two primary objectives: 1) to broaden the sociological construct of community attachment to incorporate both social and natural environment dimensions of attachment, and 2) to examine how variations in attachment relate to two dimensions of well-being in natural amenity-rich rural communities. The specific dimensions of well-being measured are two important factors identified in previous research-collective action and perception…
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Culture Clash'' Revisited
Many rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West with high amenity values have experienced substantial in-migration in the 1990s. Popular media accounts and some social science literature suggest that newcomers have very different values than longer-term residents regarding environment, growth, and development issues, and that these differences are resulting in widespread social conflict. We evaluate these 'culture clash' and 'gangplank' hypothe…
Growth, Decline, Stability, and Disruption
During the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists focused considerable attention on patterns of community change in boomtowns affected by large-scale energy resource development in the western United States. The resulting literature has provided inconsistent and relatively inconclusive evidence about the extent of various forms of social disruption caused by the rapid economic and demographic changes associated with such developments. In particular, …
The Boom‐Bust‐Recovery Cycle
To better understand the long‐term effects of rapid boom growth, we reexamine four subjective indicators of community satisfaction and social integration in Delta, Utah, that were originally analyzed by Brown, Geertsen, and Krannich in 1989. With 24 years of longitudinal data, we find that within approximately a decade of the boom period three of the four indicators returned to or exceeded pre‐boom levels. We argue that we need to modify our theo…
Dimensions of Community Attachment and Their Relationship to Well-Being in the Amenity-Rich Rural West
This research had two primary objectives: 1) to broaden the sociological construct of community attachment to incorporate both social and natural environment dimensions of attachment, and 2) to examine how variations in attachment relate to two dimensions of well-being in natural amenity-rich rural communities. The specific dimensions of well-being measured are two important factors identified in previous research-collective action and perception…
Social Landscapes of the Inter-Mountain West
Rural communities have experienced dramatic demographic, social, and economic transformations over the past 30 years. Historically characterized by close links between natural resources and social, cultural, and economic structures, few of today's rural communities remain heavily dependent upon traditional extractive industries like ranching, forestry, and mining. New forms of development linked to natural and cultural amenities, including touris…
Tourism dependence and resident attitudes
Community Attachments as Predictors of Local Environmental Concern
This article conceptualizes two distinct dimensions of community attachment-socially based attachment and attachment to a community's natural environment-and examines their connections with attitudes about local environmental issues. The findings indicate that the two dimensions of attachment are distinct and relate differently to environmental concern. In cases where the social attachment dimension is a statistically significant predictor of att…
Rural Migration, Rapid Growth, and Fear of Crime
Although much research on rural 'boomtowns' explores differences between rapid-growth communities and more stable communities, it is logical to consider that residents within rural boomtowns experience community transitions in different ways. We examine a specific outcome, fear of crime, across three categories of community residents with different migration histories: lifetime residents, migrants who joined the boomtown community during its peri…
Public views on renewable energy in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States
Community Participation in Rapidly Growing Communities in Southern Utah
Amenity-rich locations attract individuals searching for places to recreate, live, or retire. As a result, such areas, many of which are in the Western United States, experience changes related to population in-migration. Past research shows how the extensive in-migration of people with different values and perspectives can contribute to social conflict in affected communities. This study focuses on the relationship of community level indicators …
A Great Idea, Just Not Near Me!” Understanding Public Attitudes About Renewable Energy Facilities
Generally, the growth of renewable energy sources is supported by the American public. However, gaining acceptance of large-scale renewable energy projects from local residents is often difficult. Like many other states in the United States, Utah has several proposed, under construction, and operational renewable energy facilities and potential for significant renewable energy growth. However, several energy projects have been met with considerab…
Local Identity, Solidarity, and Trust in Changing Rural Communities
This research continues the effort to understand the sociocultural and social-psychological effects resulting from rapid change in rural communities. Two aspects of social well-being that underlie the concept of community are addressed: a sense of local identity and solidarity and a sense of trust. Change in these perceptions during periods of rapid community growth or decline could indicate a changing sense of community and changing levels of so…
A Multidimensional Exploration of the Foundations of Community Attachment among Seasonal and Year-Round Residents
Utah is a popular second-home destination because of its unique landscapes offering numerous natural amenities. This research utilized data from a mail survey of residents in six Utah counties and had two objectives: (1) to test a multidimensional conceptualization of community attachment and (2) to determine if the foundations of community attachment, based on those conceptual dimensions, are different for year-round and seasonal residents. The …
Identification With Resource-Based Occupations and Desire for Tourism
Occupational identity is frequently used to explain why rural residents traditionally involved in natural resource-based occupations have no interest in tourism activities as a form of economic development, with researchers arguing these residents view tourism as inconsistent with the cultural traditions associated with more traditional rural occupations such as logging, mining, or agriculture. However, the link between resource-based occupationa…
Opportunity/Threat Responses to Nuclear Waste Disposal Facilities 1
One of the most difficult environmental policy challenges facing the United States and other societies is that of finding ways to safely dispose of hazardous and toxic substances, including nuclear waste materials. Efforts to site such facilities have been uniformly unsuccessful, due largely to strong public opposition. Although supporters of such facilities often emphasize the potential for local economic development and other opportunities, opp…
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Using Key Informant Data in Comparative Community Research
Among the obstacles confronting community researchers are difficulties in conducting comparative research involving more than a small number of communities. This is especially true when research is directed toward investigations of social processes and actions that cannot reasonably be tapped using available secondary data sources. One potential approach to resolving this dilemma involves the collection of information on social processes and acti…
Neighboring Patterns, Social Support, and Rapid Growth
Recently sociologists have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of rapid community growth and change on social relations and social integration, adding to a long tradition of scholarly concern with the social effects of urbanism and modernization. As was characteristic of much of the traditional literature on urbanization, the recent discussions of rapid community growth have tended overwhelmingly to assert various 'social disruptio…
The Influence of Religious Affiliation on Community Views about Environment, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in and around the Mormon Culture Region
While political ideology is a consistent predictor of public environmental views in the United States, religious affiliation may also be an important correlate of environmental attitudes, especially in regions with a majority denomination. Using data from a 2014 survey in five communities across Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming (n = 906) experiencing renewable energy development, we investigate the influence of religious affiliation on environmental beli…
Support for Waste Facility Siting
Decisions regarding hazardous waste facility siting are now open to extensive public debate. Efforts on the part of public officials and private companies to site waste management facilities have been thwarted by public opposition. Using survey data from leaders and residents in communities which are hosting or siting facilities, this study examines their sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, levels of trust, perceptions of risk, perceptio…
Rural tourism and gendered nuances
Factors Influencing Farmers' Expectations to Sell Agricultural Land for Non-Agricultural Uses
In this study we identify factors that influence farmers' expectations to sell some or all of their farming operation in areas where the increase in the conversion of agricultural land has been relatively rapid. Findings indicate that the following factors increase farmers' propensity to sell some or all of the agricultural operation for non-agricultural land use: perceived negative change (particularly difficulty in obtaining and retaining renta…
Keep quiet on climate
Local perceptions of public lands natural resource management in the rural west
During the 1990s federal land and resource management agencies have experienced increasingly contentious relationships with many rural‐area publics. Controversies over agency efforts to manage traditional resource uses such as grazing and mining and to protect environmentally sensitive areas have provided an impetus for organized efforts to reduce federal control over public lands resources. The emergence of the “Wise Use,” “country supremacy,” a…
Bonded to whom? Social interactions in a high-amenity rural setting
Beginning with Kasarda and Janowitz, several dimensions of community attachment have been theorized. The local social bonds or the interpersonal dimension of community attachment is reflected in social interaction with family, friends and neighbors. A current trend within the United States is the influx of seasonal residents into high-amenity areas. Whether this influx affects the types ofsocial bonds formed in such areas is an important and unan…
The Sociological Enterprise
Neighboring Patterns, Social Support, and Rapid Growth
Recently sociologists have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of rapid community growth and change on social relations and social integration, adding to a long tradition of scholarly concern with the social effects of urbanism and modernization. As was characteristic of much of the traditional literature on urbanization, the recent discussions of rapid community growth have tended overwhelmingly to assert various 'social disruptio…
Contact, Support, and Friction
The networks literature has been bedeviled by an assumption that networks convey supportiveness to the exclusion of conflict. In this article, we discuss a method for distinguishing conflict, support, and simple contact network linkages in surveys. We then describe the results of applying this procedure to a random sample of households in several rural areas. We find that conflict does permeate personal relations. We also find that ego's and alte…
Using Key Informant Data in Comparative Community Research
Among the obstacles confronting community researchers are difficulties in conducting comparative research involving more than a small number of communities. This is especially true when research is directed toward investigations of social processes and actions that cannot reasonably be tapped using available secondary data sources. One potential approach to resolving this dilemma involves the collection of information on social processes and acti…
Recreation impacts of western energy development
In recent years, recreation impacts linked to in‐migrating workforces have become a focus of controversy over energy facility siting, particularly in areas proximate to National Parks and Wilderness areas. However, after over a decade of research focused on effects of energy resource development in the western U.S., major questions remain about the nature and extent of impacts on recreation. In this article we review major issues and controversie…
A longitudinal analysis of neighboring in rapidly changing rural places
Local Identity, Solidarity, and Trust in Changing Rural Communities
This research continues the effort to understand the sociocultural and social-psychological effects resulting from rapid change in rural communities. Two aspects of social well-being that underlie the concept of community are addressed: a sense of local identity and solidarity and a sense of trust. Change in these perceptions during periods of rapid community growth or decline could indicate a changing sense of community and changing levels of so…
Changing Forest Service Values and Their Implications for Land Management Decisions Affecting Resource-Dependent Communities1
Employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service (USFS) are frequently confronted with difficult trade-off decisions in establishing multiple-use priorities that affect rural communities economically dependent on national forests. Although such decisions are often tied to laws and agency policies, in many cases they may also reflect the value orientations of USFS personnel. This study utilizes survey data collected from a nationwide…
Opportunity/Threat Responses to Nuclear Waste Disposal Facilities 1
One of the most difficult environmental policy challenges facing the United States and other societies is that of finding ways to safely dispose of hazardous and toxic substances, including nuclear waste materials. Efforts to site such facilities have been uniformly unsuccessful, due largely to strong public opposition. Although supporters of such facilities often emphasize the potential for local economic development and other opportunities, opp…
The Social Context of Perceived Drought Vulnerability1
This paper examines perceptions of drought vulnerability among residents of the southern San Joaquin Valley portion of Kern County, California. The area is unique in the western United States because of its complex water delivery infrastructure and its intensive level of agricultural production supported by agricultural labor. The area is interesting to rural sociologists because it was part of Goldschmidt's research on the social implications of…
Economic and fiscal impacts of waste and non-waste development in rural United States
This paper investigates the differences in the economic and fiscal impacts between communities, and their respective counties, which had experienced economic development from the siting and operation of waste processing and disposal facilities, versus those that had experienced economic development from other types of retail, wholesale distribution, or manufacturing businesses. These communities and their respective counties are compared and cont…
Waste facility experience and perceptions of waste-related health and safety risks
Based on ecological theory, we hypothesize that positive experience with waste facility siting and storage will reduce the perceived health and safety risks associated with waste sites. Evidence is presented from data collected in 15 communities in the states of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Seven of these communities are hosting or were potential sites for hazardous waste facilities, four were the sites of other types of rural i…
Local perceptions of public lands natural resource management in the rural west
During the 1990s federal land and resource management agencies have experienced increasingly contentious relationships with many rural‐area publics. Controversies over agency efforts to manage traditional resource uses such as grazing and mining and to protect environmentally sensitive areas have provided an impetus for organized efforts to reduce federal control over public lands resources. The emergence of the “Wise Use,” “country supremacy,” a…
Tourism dependence and resident attitudes
Support for Waste Facility Siting
Decisions regarding hazardous waste facility siting are now open to extensive public debate. Efforts on the part of public officials and private companies to site waste management facilities have been thwarted by public opposition. Using survey data from leaders and residents in communities which are hosting or siting facilities, this study examines their sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, levels of trust, perceptions of risk, perceptio…
Dynamics in Utah stakeholders’ representation, interest in wildlife, and evaluation of wildlife‐related experiences, 1986–1998
A 1998 statewide study was compared to a study conducted in 1986 to determine whether the representation of selected stakeholder groups and public attitudes regarding selected wildlife management issues in Utah have changed over time. Specifically, the following constructs were examined: stakeholder group representation, overall hunting satisfaction across three groups of hunters, overall satisfaction among nonconsumptive users, and overall inter…
Culture Clash'' Revisited
Many rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West with high amenity values have experienced substantial in-migration in the 1990s. Popular media accounts and some social science literature suggest that newcomers have very different values than longer-term residents regarding environment, growth, and development issues, and that these differences are resulting in widespread social conflict. We evaluate these 'culture clash' and 'gangplank' hypothe…
Wildlife Managers and Public Involvement
Addressing the demands of diverse publics requires wildlife management agencies to seek opportunities for public input. Essential to the search for such opportunities is recognizing barriers. To evaluate internal barriers to public involvement in Utah, this study analyzed Utah Division of Wildlife Resource (UDWR) managers' attitudes regarding public involvement in management decisions. Mail survey results indicate that managers believe most decis…
Growth, Decline, Stability, and Disruption
During the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists focused considerable attention on patterns of community change in boomtowns affected by large-scale energy resource development in the western United States. The resulting literature has provided inconsistent and relatively inconclusive evidence about the extent of various forms of social disruption caused by the rapid economic and demographic changes associated with such developments. In particular, …
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Is Pesticide Use Socially Acceptable? A Comparison between Urban and Rural Settings
Objective . This study examines key factors that are identified as theoretically probable influences on levels of public acceptance of pesticide use. Research questions were generated about the relationship between levels of acceptability of pesticide use and measures of trust in information about pesticides from various sources, perceptions of the safety of pesticides, concerns about exposure, personal experiences with pesticides, place of resid…
Factors Influencing Farmers' Expectations to Sell Agricultural Land for Non-Agricultural Uses
In this study we identify factors that influence farmers' expectations to sell some or all of their farming operation in areas where the increase in the conversion of agricultural land has been relatively rapid. Findings indicate that the following factors increase farmers' propensity to sell some or all of the agricultural operation for non-agricultural land use: perceived negative change (particularly difficulty in obtaining and retaining renta…
Rural Migration, Rapid Growth, and Fear of Crime
Although much research on rural 'boomtowns' explores differences between rapid-growth communities and more stable communities, it is logical to consider that residents within rural boomtowns experience community transitions in different ways. We examine a specific outcome, fear of crime, across three categories of community residents with different migration histories: lifetime residents, migrants who joined the boomtown community during its peri…
Dimensions of Community Attachment and Their Relationship to Well-Being in the Amenity-Rich Rural West
This research had two primary objectives: 1) to broaden the sociological construct of community attachment to incorporate both social and natural environment dimensions of attachment, and 2) to examine how variations in attachment relate to two dimensions of well-being in natural amenity-rich rural communities. The specific dimensions of well-being measured are two important factors identified in previous research-collective action and perception…
Understanding the Multidimensionality of Property Rights Orientations
In the United States, the nature and limits of private property rights have been central themes in natural resource debates over issues such as rural land use control, public and private rangeland management, and endangered species preservation. In most of these debates, private property owners are characterized as favoring strong protection of private property rights and resisting efforts to condition their rights against the interests of societ…
Sociology (33 works) · Geography (32 works) · Political science (27 works) · Economics (23 works) · Ecology (19 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Demography (12 works) · Economic growth (12 works)