Sandra T Marquart‐pyatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4257044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra T Marquart‐pyatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra T |
| FAMILY NAME | Marquart‐pyatt |
| SIGNATURE | PYATT S T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 458 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Understanding the Drivers of Biological and Technological Practice Adoption by United States Midwest Farmers
Transforming nutrient management through technological innovation or incorporating biological principles in farming is critical to reverse environmental degradation caused by overapplying synthetic fertilizers. There is growing demand to adopt a systems-based approach to agriculture, acknowledging the interconnectedness of farming practices. Using data collected in 2018 from corn and soybean producers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, we …
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest
Farmers' Social Capital in Agricultural Decision-Making☆
Reducing tillage is a key goal for conservation and regenerative agriculture, yet research has struggled to identify ways to increase the use of the practice among farmers. Recent scholarship has identified social capital as an important piece of the adoption puzzle. However, the ways in which farmers' social capital influences conservation practice use are seldom identified or explored. In this study, we tested the effects of three measures of s…
Building ties at multi-stakeholder engagement events to facilitate social learning about contentious issues in natural resource management
Navigating the information landscape: Public and private information source access by midwest farmers
The Religious Foundations of Welfare, Social Inclusion, and Anti‐Immigrant Attitudes in Europe
This paper unites disparate literature to test the influence of religious belonging and behavior characteristics along with secular welfare boundaries on anti‐immigrant attitudes. We suggest that welfare states varied in their religious foundations during the transition from religious‐based solidarity to modern state‐based solidarity and formulate a novel analytical framework to hypothesize effects across individuals and welfare regime types. Usi…
Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on Covid-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees
To provide services safely to refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have instituted public health safety protocols to mitigate the risk of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, it can be difficult for people to adhere to protocols under the best of circumstances, and in situations of nested crises, in which one crisis contributes to a cascade of additional crises, adherence can further deteri…
Understanding the Past and Present and Predicting the Future: Farmers’ Use of Multiple Nutrient Best Management Practices in the Upper Midwest
Understanding what drives farmers’ voluntary adoption of nutrient and soil best management practices has important consequences for many environmental outcomes including water quality. We build on research revealing the need for simultaneous use of multiple nitrogen best management practices to achieve water quality improvement goals. Using social, economic and attitudinal variables we predict the use of multiple nitrogen best management practice…
Climate Change Views, Energy Policy Preferences, and Intended Actions Across Welfare State Regimes: Evidence from the European Social Survey
More than three decades of social science research demonstrates environmental issues as important social problems commanding international attention. Although an emerging body of scholarship examines patterns of climate views of general publics worldwide, how these connect to attitudes supportive of renewable energy and energy behavioral intentions across nations is less well understood. We use 2016 data from 17 countries in the European Social S…
Environmental Sustainability in Africa
Although sustainability-related efforts remain central to development, their accomplishment varies across places for a variety of reasons including climatic and geographic differences. This variability makes a regional focus important. In this paper, we investigate ecological footprints in both total and sub-footprint forms as measures of environmental sustainability over time in Africa. We examine economic, demographic, and ecological variables …
Trust and environmental activism across regions and countries
Farmer selection of sources of information for nitrogen management in the US Midwest: Implications for environmental programs
Climate-induced migration: Using mental models to explore aggregate and individual decision-making
The US Dust Bowl of the 1930s (a prolong period of drought experienced in the United States accompanied by severe sand storms) is often described as an abnormal event. However, climate change is likely to increase the frequency and impact of similar occurrences. Because of this, a growing number of scholars have begun to examine multiple facets of climate-induced migration from various disciplinary traditions. Specifically, scholars have called f…
Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States
Environmental Trust: A Cross-Region and Cross-Country Study
Environmental issues such as pollution and access to clean water and concerns like awareness of environmental conditions are pressing global challenges. Despite its importance, however, our understanding of how environmental views connect with trust is understudied. To address this gap in the literature, this article examines the composition, level, and distribution of environmental trust as a latent variable and the factors shaping it. Both cros…
Political ideology and views about climate change in the European Union
There is a strong political divide on climate change in the US general public, with Liberals and Democrats expressing greater belief in and concern about climate change than Conservatives and Republicans. Recent studies find a similar though less pronounced divide in other countries. Its leadership in international climate policy making warrants extending this line of research to the European Union (EU). The extent of a left–right ideological div…
Political Tolerance
Environmental Sustainability: The Ecological Footprint in West Africa
Although achieving sustainability remains a key goal of development, efforts to attain it vary across places, making a regional focus important. This paper investigates the ecological footprint-one measure of environmental sustainability-over time with focus on West Africa. Expectations from environmental impact and structural human ecology approaches are incorporated into an investigation of key factors driving national-level environmental susta…
A behavioural measure of environmental decision-making for social surveys
There is great benefit in using measures of environmentally significant behaviour – rather than just behavioural intentions or self-reported behaviour – if we are to advance our understanding of the individual and structural factors that influence environmental decision-making. Along these lines, to supplement the use of behavioural intention and self-reported behaviour measures in environmental decision-making research, we identify and validate …
Perceptions of Power and Manner of Designation: Impacts on Trust
The two key factors of (1) how local interests should be weighed in public land management and (2) the manner in which public land designation occurred have been overlooked in research on trust in federal land management agencies. The literature also tends to focus solely on direct relationships between various predictors of trust, rather than examining indirect relationships. Using survey data of Escalante, Utah, residents 10 years after designa…
Public Opinion about the Environment: Testing Measurement Equivalence across Countries
Environmental issues and opinions are increasingly recognized as topics of importance to a global audience. Scholars in the social sciences seek to describe trends in public opinion about environmental concerns cross-nationally, yet use a variety of measures and analytical techniques for such work. Although an understudied topic, the question of measurement comparability across contexts is important for this line of inquiry. This research examine…
Politics eclipses climate extremes for climate change perceptions
Populating the Water World: Exploring Data Aspirations of Water Experts
This article argues for the systematic, coordinated, and ongoing collection of primary data on humans, spanning beliefs, perceptions, behaviors, and institutions, alongside data about the water environments in which people are embedded. Such an enterprise would not only advance water science and related policy and management decisions, but also generate basic insights into human cognition, decision making, and institutional development. Input fro…
It is not just scale that matters: Political trust in Utah
While the traditional assumption is residents have more confidence in governments that are closest to them, empirical studies supporting this claim remain limited. In this study, we test the claim that 'small is beautiful' by comparing citizen reactions to similar types of decisions affecting Utah residents made by political leaders at different levels of governance. Our primary goal is to test the claim that trust is higher for local governments…
With the Stroke of a Pen: Designation of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and the Impact on Trust
Political ideology and views about climate change in the European Union
There is a strong political divide on climate change in the US general public, with Liberals and Democrats expressing greater belief in and concern about climate change than Conservatives and Republicans. Recent studies find a similar though less pronounced divide in other countries. Its leadership in international climate policy making warrants extending this line of research to the European Union (EU). The extent of a left–right ideological div…
Politics eclipses climate extremes for climate change perceptions
Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States
In Principle and in Practice: Learning Political Tolerance in Eastern and Western Europe
Contextual influences on environmental concerns cross-nationally: A multilevel investigation
Are There Similar Sources of Environmental Concern? Comparing Industrialized Countries
Objectives. Despite the emergence of environmental concern worldwide, the social forces underlying its expression are not well understood. This research extends previous cross‐national studies by employing multi‐item indicators of environmental concern in order to more accurately portray concern for the environment as a multifaceted concept and to determine whether the sources of environmental concern are similar among industrialized countries. M…
Climate Change Views, Energy Policy Preferences, and Intended Actions Across Welfare State Regimes: Evidence from the European Social Survey
More than three decades of social science research demonstrates environmental issues as important social problems commanding international attention. Although an emerging body of scholarship examines patterns of climate views of general publics worldwide, how these connect to attitudes supportive of renewable energy and energy behavioral intentions across nations is less well understood. We use 2016 data from 17 countries in the European Social S…
Explaining Environmental Activism Across Countries
This article tests a model of pathways to environmental activism across 16 nations using structural equation modeling. Given previous research, a model is proposed articulating individual resources, knowledge, awareness of consequences, attitudes, willingness to contribute, and efficacy as factors influencing environmental activism. The mediating effect of willingness to make environmental contributions is investigated in detail based on expectat…
A Cross-National Investigation of Deforestation, Debt, State Fiscal Capacity, and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Recent international conferences and policy initiatives demonstrate a far-reaching interest in global environmental concerns. This research explores relationships among debt levels, states, and deforestation. Dependency, ecological modernization, and statist perspectives are employed. The models investigate the influence of escalating debt levels of the 1980s on deforestation from 1990 to 1995. Measures of state fiscal capacity and regime type ar…
Concern for the Environment Among General Publics: A Cross-National Study
Concern for the environment has been noted in recent decades as a global phenomenon that is present among general publics in regions around the world. Though a topic of emerging interest, at present, assessments of environmental concern cross-nationally do not provide definitive evidence as to whether similar levels of environmental concern are identifiable across mass publics and whether its underpinnings are similar across national contexts. Th…
Land tenure in the U.S: Power, gender, and consequences for conservation decision making
Environmental Trust: A Cross-Region and Cross-Country Study
Environmental issues such as pollution and access to clean water and concerns like awareness of environmental conditions are pressing global challenges. Despite its importance, however, our understanding of how environmental views connect with trust is understudied. To address this gap in the literature, this article examines the composition, level, and distribution of environmental trust as a latent variable and the factors shaping it. Both cros…
Environmental Concerns in Cross-National Context: How Do Mass Publics in Central and Eastern Europe Compare with Other Regions of the World
Research examining the globalisation of environmental concern shown in public opinion surveys is currently underspecified, as the countries in Central and Eastern Europe are not explicitly showcased in empirical research. To address this gap in the literature, this research examines two measures of environmental concern, awareness of environmental threats and willingness to sacrifice, emphasising former state socialist countries both in compariso…
A behavioural measure of environmental decision-making for social surveys
There is great benefit in using measures of environmentally significant behaviour – rather than just behavioural intentions or self-reported behaviour – if we are to advance our understanding of the individual and structural factors that influence environmental decision-making. Along these lines, to supplement the use of behavioural intention and self-reported behaviour measures in environmental decision-making research, we identify and validate …
Understanding the Past and Present and Predicting the Future: Farmers’ Use of Multiple Nutrient Best Management Practices in the Upper Midwest
Understanding what drives farmers’ voluntary adoption of nutrient and soil best management practices has important consequences for many environmental outcomes including water quality. We build on research revealing the need for simultaneous use of multiple nitrogen best management practices to achieve water quality improvement goals. Using social, economic and attitudinal variables we predict the use of multiple nitrogen best management practice…
It is not just scale that matters: Political trust in Utah
While the traditional assumption is residents have more confidence in governments that are closest to them, empirical studies supporting this claim remain limited. In this study, we test the claim that 'small is beautiful' by comparing citizen reactions to similar types of decisions affecting Utah residents made by political leaders at different levels of governance. Our primary goal is to test the claim that trust is higher for local governments…
Trust and environmental activism across regions and countries
Trust, the Democratic Process, and Involvement in a Rural Community
A number of dimensions of the democratic political process are important for understanding civic communities and civic engagement. While many of these aspects have been examined at the federal level, less is known about how these dynamics operate at the local level, especially in rural communities, and that, moreover, involve a specific issue. In this study, we explore the relationships between trust in public officials, views of the decision-mak…
Public Opinion about the Environment: Testing Measurement Equivalence across Countries
Environmental issues and opinions are increasingly recognized as topics of importance to a global audience. Scholars in the social sciences seek to describe trends in public opinion about environmental concerns cross-nationally, yet use a variety of measures and analytical techniques for such work. Although an understudied topic, the question of measurement comparability across contexts is important for this line of inquiry. This research examine…
Navigating the information landscape: Public and private information source access by midwest farmers
The Politics of Welfare in Transition: Gender or Back to Class
How is the transition from state socialism to market capitalism reshaping political attitudes toward the state in Central and Eastern Europe? Several scholars of the transition have observed a conservative cultural turn in mass politics, suggesting a possible decline of class and gender as meaningful organizing principles for political activity. However, recent empirical analyses of the formation of political attitudes and political activity duri…
Farmer selection of sources of information for nitrogen management in the US Midwest: Implications for environmental programs
Climate-induced migration: Using mental models to explore aggregate and individual decision-making
The US Dust Bowl of the 1930s (a prolong period of drought experienced in the United States accompanied by severe sand storms) is often described as an abnormal event. However, climate change is likely to increase the frequency and impact of similar occurrences. Because of this, a growing number of scholars have begun to examine multiple facets of climate-induced migration from various disciplinary traditions. Specifically, scholars have called f…
Environmental Sustainability: A Closer Look at Factors Influencing National Ecological Footprints
This article investigates the driving forces of the ecological footprint (EF) and its six subcomponents to examine similarities in sources using a cross-national data set of more than 100 countries. Expectations from environmental impact, world-systems, and world-polity perspectives are incorporated in a model examining the institutional-level attributes driving national-level imprints on the biophysical environment. Results suggest that the stru…
Farmers' Social Capital in Agricultural Decision-Making☆
Reducing tillage is a key goal for conservation and regenerative agriculture, yet research has struggled to identify ways to increase the use of the practice among farmers. Recent scholarship has identified social capital as an important piece of the adoption puzzle. However, the ways in which farmers' social capital influences conservation practice use are seldom identified or explored. In this study, we tested the effects of three measures of s…
A Cross-National Investigation of Deforestation, Debt, State Fiscal Capacity, and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Recent international conferences and policy initiatives demonstrate a far-reaching interest in global environmental concerns. This research explores relationships among debt levels, states, and deforestation. Dependency, ecological modernization, and statist perspectives are employed. The models investigate the influence of escalating debt levels of the 1980s on deforestation from 1990 to 1995. Measures of state fiscal capacity and regime type ar…
Concern for the Environment Among General Publics: A Cross-National Study
Concern for the environment has been noted in recent decades as a global phenomenon that is present among general publics in regions around the world. Though a topic of emerging interest, at present, assessments of environmental concern cross-nationally do not provide definitive evidence as to whether similar levels of environmental concern are identifiable across mass publics and whether its underpinnings are similar across national contexts. Th…
In Principle and in Practice: Learning Political Tolerance in Eastern and Western Europe
Are There Similar Sources of Environmental Concern? Comparing Industrialized Countries
Objectives. Despite the emergence of environmental concern worldwide, the social forces underlying its expression are not well understood. This research extends previous cross‐national studies by employing multi‐item indicators of environmental concern in order to more accurately portray concern for the environment as a multifaceted concept and to determine whether the sources of environmental concern are similar among industrialized countries. M…
The Politics of Welfare in Transition: Gender or Back to Class
How is the transition from state socialism to market capitalism reshaping political attitudes toward the state in Central and Eastern Europe? Several scholars of the transition have observed a conservative cultural turn in mass politics, suggesting a possible decline of class and gender as meaningful organizing principles for political activity. However, recent empirical analyses of the formation of political attitudes and political activity duri…
Trust, the Democratic Process, and Involvement in a Rural Community
A number of dimensions of the democratic political process are important for understanding civic communities and civic engagement. While many of these aspects have been examined at the federal level, less is known about how these dynamics operate at the local level, especially in rural communities, and that, moreover, involve a specific issue. In this study, we explore the relationships between trust in public officials, views of the decision-mak…
Digging the Dugway: Understanding Involvement in Local Politics
This research examines what motivates residents to become involved in a community-based issue, focusing on how living in close proximity, trust in local officials, and perceptions of decision-making processes influence involvement in a Utah community. Delving into a particular issue provides an opportunity to explore relationships shaping how local politics play out. This study finds that living in close proximity and trust matter in motivating i…
Environmental Sustainability: A Closer Look at Factors Influencing National Ecological Footprints
This article investigates the driving forces of the ecological footprint (EF) and its six subcomponents to examine similarities in sources using a cross-national data set of more than 100 countries. Expectations from environmental impact, world-systems, and world-polity perspectives are incorporated in a model examining the institutional-level attributes driving national-level imprints on the biophysical environment. Results suggest that the stru…
Explaining Environmental Activism Across Countries
This article tests a model of pathways to environmental activism across 16 nations using structural equation modeling. Given previous research, a model is proposed articulating individual resources, knowledge, awareness of consequences, attitudes, willingness to contribute, and efficacy as factors influencing environmental activism. The mediating effect of willingness to make environmental contributions is investigated in detail based on expectat…
Land tenure in the U.S: Power, gender, and consequences for conservation decision making
Environmental Concerns in Cross-National Context: How Do Mass Publics in Central and Eastern Europe Compare with Other Regions of the World
Research examining the globalisation of environmental concern shown in public opinion surveys is currently underspecified, as the countries in Central and Eastern Europe are not explicitly showcased in empirical research. To address this gap in the literature, this research examines two measures of environmental concern, awareness of environmental threats and willingness to sacrifice, emphasising former state socialist countries both in compariso…
Contextual influences on environmental concerns cross-nationally: A multilevel investigation
It is not just scale that matters: Political trust in Utah
While the traditional assumption is residents have more confidence in governments that are closest to them, empirical studies supporting this claim remain limited. In this study, we test the claim that 'small is beautiful' by comparing citizen reactions to similar types of decisions affecting Utah residents made by political leaders at different levels of governance. Our primary goal is to test the claim that trust is higher for local governments…
With the Stroke of a Pen: Designation of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and the Impact on Trust
Politics eclipses climate extremes for climate change perceptions
Populating the Water World: Exploring Data Aspirations of Water Experts
This article argues for the systematic, coordinated, and ongoing collection of primary data on humans, spanning beliefs, perceptions, behaviors, and institutions, alongside data about the water environments in which people are embedded. Such an enterprise would not only advance water science and related policy and management decisions, but also generate basic insights into human cognition, decision making, and institutional development. Input fro…
Political Tolerance
Environmental Sustainability: The Ecological Footprint in West Africa
Although achieving sustainability remains a key goal of development, efforts to attain it vary across places, making a regional focus important. This paper investigates the ecological footprint-one measure of environmental sustainability-over time with focus on West Africa. Expectations from environmental impact and structural human ecology approaches are incorporated into an investigation of key factors driving national-level environmental susta…
A behavioural measure of environmental decision-making for social surveys
There is great benefit in using measures of environmentally significant behaviour – rather than just behavioural intentions or self-reported behaviour – if we are to advance our understanding of the individual and structural factors that influence environmental decision-making. Along these lines, to supplement the use of behavioural intention and self-reported behaviour measures in environmental decision-making research, we identify and validate …
Perceptions of Power and Manner of Designation: Impacts on Trust
The two key factors of (1) how local interests should be weighed in public land management and (2) the manner in which public land designation occurred have been overlooked in research on trust in federal land management agencies. The literature also tends to focus solely on direct relationships between various predictors of trust, rather than examining indirect relationships. Using survey data of Escalante, Utah, residents 10 years after designa…
Public Opinion about the Environment: Testing Measurement Equivalence across Countries
Environmental issues and opinions are increasingly recognized as topics of importance to a global audience. Scholars in the social sciences seek to describe trends in public opinion about environmental concerns cross-nationally, yet use a variety of measures and analytical techniques for such work. Although an understudied topic, the question of measurement comparability across contexts is important for this line of inquiry. This research examine…
Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States
Environmental Trust: A Cross-Region and Cross-Country Study
Environmental issues such as pollution and access to clean water and concerns like awareness of environmental conditions are pressing global challenges. Despite its importance, however, our understanding of how environmental views connect with trust is understudied. To address this gap in the literature, this article examines the composition, level, and distribution of environmental trust as a latent variable and the factors shaping it. Both cros…
Political ideology and views about climate change in the European Union
There is a strong political divide on climate change in the US general public, with Liberals and Democrats expressing greater belief in and concern about climate change than Conservatives and Republicans. Recent studies find a similar though less pronounced divide in other countries. Its leadership in international climate policy making warrants extending this line of research to the European Union (EU). The extent of a left–right ideological div…
Climate-induced migration: Using mental models to explore aggregate and individual decision-making
The US Dust Bowl of the 1930s (a prolong period of drought experienced in the United States accompanied by severe sand storms) is often described as an abnormal event. However, climate change is likely to increase the frequency and impact of similar occurrences. Because of this, a growing number of scholars have begun to examine multiple facets of climate-induced migration from various disciplinary traditions. Specifically, scholars have called f…
Political science (29 works) · Economics (20 works) · Geography (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 works)