Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Hunter, Lori Mae

Professor

Positions

Institute Director, Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS)
Professor, Sociology

Research Areas

Research

keywords

rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, natural resources, social dimensions of climate change, migration, South Africa, rural Mexico-US migration, climate migration, rural America, rural change, rural health and well-being, climate hazards, demography, sociology

Publications

selected publications

book
chapter
- Environmental demography 2020
- Climate change, migration and health 2019
- Climate change, migration and health. 50-66. 2019
- Where do we go from here? Reflections on the future of environmental migration and displacement research. 430-435. 2018
- Adult mortality, food security and the use of wild natural resources in a rural district of South Africa: Exploring the environmental dimensions of AIDS. 153-170. 2016
- Migration and the Environment. 465-484. 2016
- Adaptation to climate change. 164-198. 2015
- The future of international migration. 333-396. 2014
- Migration and Environmental Hazards 2013
- Population and environment 2012
- Climate Change and Migration: Considering Gender Dimensions 2011
- Displacement, climate change and gender 2011
- Migration and environmental hazards. Population & Environment. 273-302. 2005
- Population and the environment 2003
conference proceeding
journal article
- Rural households' vulnerability to drought and implications for resilience: Insights from Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Progress in Disaster Science. 100520-100520. 2026
- Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience. Nature Climate Change. 1257-1260. 2025
- Livelihood Transitions and Determinants in Rural South Africa: Insights from a Longitudinal Analysis of Households in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province. Society & Natural Resources. 1-26. 2025
- Relationships between rural migration and perceptions of environmental change: Insights from Bushbuckridge, South Africa. Journal of Rural Studies. 103819-103819. 2025
- Agrarian transitions in rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga province, South Africa: understanding dynamics and determinants. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2025
- Resilience and Coping Strategies in Rural South Africa during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study of Livelihoods, Food Security, and Socioeconomic Determinants. Human Ecology. 213-225. 2025
- A framework for ageing and health vulnerabilities in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change. 1125-1135. 2024
- Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America. Population, Space and Place. 2024
- Rural migration under climate and land systems change. Nature Sustainability. 1092-1101. 2024
- Undocumented migration in response to climate change. International Journal of Population Studies. 60-60. 2024
- Environmental migration and non-migration: Learning through an intergenerational lens. Migration Studies. 2024
- Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Development Southern Africa. 164-182. 2024
- Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 2023
- Nexus between summer climate variability and household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Environmental Development. 2023
- Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2023
- Environmental non-migration: framework, methods, and cases. Regional Environmental Change. 2023
- Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory?. International Migration Review. 5-35. 2023
- Operationalizing and empirically identifying populations trapped in place by climate and environmental stressors in Mexico. Regional Environmental Change. 2022
- Exploring Rural-Urban Differences in Polygenic Associations for Health among Older Adults in the United States.. Journal of Rural Social Sciences. 2022
- Scales and sensitivities in climate vulnerability, displacement, and health. Population and Environment. 61-81. 2021
- Working toward effective anonymization for surveillance data: innovation at South Africa's Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance Site. Population and Environment. 445-476. 2021
- Change in US Small Town Community Capitals, 1980-2010. Population Research and Policy Review. 913-940. 2020
- Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s. American Journal of Public Health. 1328-1331. 2020
- A portfolio perspective of rural livelihoods in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 98-105. 2020
- Climate change and human displacement: Futures for human health. Nature Sustainability. 2020
- Working toward effective anonymization for population-environment-health research: Innovation at South Africa’s Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site. Population and Environment. 2020
- Hardin's oversimplification of population growth. Nature Sustainability. 78-79. 2019
- Social capital is subordinate to natural capital in buffering rural livelihoods from negative shocks: Insights from rural South Africa. Journal of Rural Studies. 12-21. 2019
- Climate Migration at the Height and End of the Great Mexican Emigration Era. Population and Development Review. 455-488. 2018
- The gender dynamics of climate migration in Indonesia. Migration Studies. 2018
- Might climate change the "healthy migrant" effect?. Global Environmental Change. 133-142. 2017
- Internal and International Mobility as Adaptation to Climatic Variability in Contemporary Mexico: Evidence from the Integration of Census and Satellite Data. Population, Space and Place. 2017
- Editor's introduction. Population and Environment. 325-326. 2017
- Variation by Geographic Scale in the Migration-Environment Association: Evidence from Rural South Africa. Comparative Population Studies. 117-147. 2017
- Domestic and International Climate Migration from Rural Mexico. Human Ecology. 687-699. 2016
- The Influence of Internal Migration on Exposure to Extreme Weather Events in Mexico. Society & Natural Resources. 750-754. 2016
- Swimming and Gendered Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Northern and Central Philippines. Society & Natural Resources. 380-385. 2016
- Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research?. Society & Natural Resources. 36-52. 2016
- Understanding the Combined Impacts of Aggregation and Spatial Non-Stationarity: The Case of Migration-Environment Associations in Rural South Africa. Transactions in GIS. 877-895. 2015
- Amplification or suppression: Social networks and the climate change-migration association in rural Mexico. Global Environmental Change. 463-474. 2015
- Climate change as a migration driver from rural and urban Mexico. Environmental Research Letters. 2015
- Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. The Lancet. 1973-2028. 2015
- Environmental Dimensions of Migration. Annual Review of Sociology. 377-397. 2015
- Will climate change shift demography’s ‘normal science’?. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. 23-28. 2015
- Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration: The demographer's toolkit. Global Environmental Change. 182-191. 2014
- Rural Outmigration, Natural Capital, and Livelihoods in South Africa. Population, Space and Place. 402-420. 2014
- Migration and the environment. Population bulletin. 2014
- Exploring the impact of the 2008 global food crisis on food security among vulnerable households in rural South Africa. Food Security. 283-297. 2014
- Enhancing engagement between the population, environment, and climate research communities: the shared socio-economic pathway process. Population and Environment. 231-242. 2014
- Wildfire-Migration Dynamics: Lessons from Colorado's Fourmile Canyon Fire. Society & Natural Resources. 215-225. 2014
- Rainfall Patterns and US Migration from Rural Mexico. International Migration Review. 874-909. 2013
- Toward Improved Understanding of Food Security A METHODOLOGICAL EXAMINATION BASED IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA. Food, Culture, & Society. 65-84. 2013
- Do Rainfall Deficits Predict U.S.-Bound Migration from Rural Mexico? Evidence from the Mexican Census. Population Research and Policy Review. 129-158. 2013
- Cohort Change, Diffusion, and Support for Environmental Spending in the United States. American Journal of Sociology. 420-448. 2012
- Rural livelihoods and access to natural capital: Differences between migrants and non-migrants in Madagascar. Demographic Research. 661-699. 2012
- Spatially and temporally varying associations between temporary outmigration and natural resource availability in resource-dependent rural communities in South Africa: A modeling framework. Applied Geography. 559-568. 2012
- Environmental Change, Risky Sexual Behavior, and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Linkages Through Livelihoods in Rural Haiti. Population Research and Policy Review. 729-750. 2011
- Introduction. Population and Environment. 1-2. 2011
- Editor's Introduction. Population and Environment. 285-286. 2011
- Adult Mortality and Natural Resource Use in Rural South Africa: Evidence From the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site. Society & Natural Resources. 256-275. 2011
- Adult mortality and household food security in rural South Africa: Does AIDS represent a unique mortality shock?. Development Southern Africa. 431-444. 2011
- Introduction. Population and Environment. 1-2. 2011
- Editor's introduction. Population and Environment. 1-2. 2010
- Editor introduction. Population and Environment. 399-400. 2010
- Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: insights from analogues. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 450-461. 2010
- Editor introduction. Population and Environment. 177-178. 2010
- Environmental Perceptions of Rural South African Residents: The Complex Nature of Environmental Concern. Society & Natural Resources. 525-541. 2010
- Public Perception of Environmental Issues in a Developing Setting: Environmental Concern in Coastal Ghana. Social Science Quarterly. 960-982. 2009
- Editor's introduction. Population and Environment. 219-221. 2009
- Editor's Introduction. Population and Environment. 129-130. 2009
- Editor Introduction. Population and Environment. 73-74. 2009
- Editor introduction. Population and Environment. 1-2. 2008
- Population, Health, and Environment Through a "Gendered" Lens: When women are better off, so are populations.. World watch. 16-21. 2008
- The environmental dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a call for scholarship and evidence-based intervention. Population and Environment. 103-107. 2008
- Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment. Global Environmental Change. 38-53. 2008
- "Locusts are now our beef": Adult mortality and household dietary use of local environmental resources in rural South Africa. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 165-174. 2007
- Population growth in high-amenity rural areas: Does it bring socioeconomic benefits for long-term residents?. Social Science Quarterly. 366-381. 2007
- "The bush is no more'': Insights on institutional change and natural resource availability in rural South Africa. Society & Natural Resources. 337-350. 2007
- A Review of: “Dickens, Peter.Society & Nature: Changing the Environment, Changing Ourselves.”. Society & Natural Resources. 95-97. 2007
- Household strategies in the face of resource scarcity in coastal Ghana: are they associated with development priorities?. Population Research and Policy Review. 157-174. 2006
- The association between natural amenities, rural population growth, and long-term residents' economic well-being. Rural Sociology. 452-469. 2005
- Migration and environmental hazards. Population and Environment. 273-302. 2005
- Religion and attitudes toward the environment: a comparison of Mormons and the general US population. Social Science Journal. 25-38. 2005
- Cross-national gender variation in environmental behaviors. Social Science Quarterly. 677-694. 2004
- The association between environmental perspective and knowledge and concern with species diversity. Society & Natural Resources. 517-532. 2004
- Examining the association between hazardous waste facilities and rural "Brain drain". Rural Sociology. 197-212. 2004
- A qualitative examination of value orientations toward wildlife and biodiversity by rural residents of the intermountain region. Human Ecology Review. 13-26. 2004
- Environmental hazards, migration, and race. Population and Environment. 23-39. 2003
- Population and land use change in the California Mojave: Natural habitat implications of alternative futures. Population Research and Policy Review. 373-397. 2003
- On the edge of scarcity: Environment, resources, population, sustainability, and conflict.. Society & Natural Resources. 562-564. 2003
- Integrating Demographic and GAP Analysis Biodiversity Data: Useful Insight?. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 145-157. 2003
- Qualitative insight into public knowledge of, and concern with, biodiversity. Human Ecology. 309-320. 2003
- Regional cultures, persistence and change: a case study of the Mormon Culture Region. Social Science Journal. 431-445. 2003
- Rural migration, rapid growth, and fear of crime. Rural Sociology. 71-89. 2002
- Growth, decline, stability, and disruption: A longitudinal analysis of social well-being in four western rural communities. Rural Sociology. 425-450. 2001
- Using social science to inform solid waste management decision making: A recycling survey and focus groups. Journal of Applied Sociology. 112-130. 2001
- A comparison of the environmental attitudes, concern, and behaviors of native-born and foreign-born US residents. Population and Environment. 565-580. 2000
- The spatial association between US immigrant residential concentration and environmental hazards. International Migration Review. 460-488. 2000
- Does ‘green’ mask gray?: Environmental equity issues at the metropolitan level 1998
- The association between environmental risk and internal migration flows. Population and Environment. 247-277. 1998

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Brown University 1997
M.A., Brown University 1993
B.A., University of Washington 1986

International Activities

geographic focus

Chile Country
Netherlands Country
South Africa Country

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3450-9791