Place-based conservation
Subtitle: perspectives from the social sciences
By: William P. Stewart, Daniel R. Williams, Linda E. Kruger, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789400758018; 9789400758025
Subjects: Community-based conservation; Conservation of natural resources; Social aspects
Description: "The concept of 'Place' has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough examination of the topic, dividing its exploration into four broad areas. Part One, Conceptual Issues of Place-Based Conservation, distinguishes and clarifies social science approaches. Part Two, Experiencing Place, probes the sources and effects of deeply individual relationships that people develop with places and landscapes. The third part, Representing Place, explores the ways in which human relationships with places are represented, become more visible and public and are transformed by conservation practices. The final section, Mapping Place, illustrates emerging techniques that connect meanings and sentiments to the material and locational characteristics of places. Place-Based Conservation provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners to help build the conceptual grounding necessary to understand and to effectively practice place-based conservation."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Emergence of Place-Based Conservation  -- Daniel R. Williams, William P. Stewart, and Linda E. Kruger; title: Science, Practice, and Place  -- Daniel R. Williams; title: Conservation Connecting Multiple Scales of Place  -- Courtney Flint; title: Organizational Cultures and Place-Based Conservation  -- Patricia A. Stokowski; title: Community, Place, and Conservation  -- Gene L. Theodori, Gerard T. Kyle; title: Sensing Value in Place  -- Herbert Schroeder; title: Place Meanings as Lived Experience  -- James R. Barkley, Linda E. Kruger; title: Personal Experience and Public Place Creation  -- Tyra Olstad; title: Volunteer Meanings in the Making of Place  -- Ben Amsden, Richard C. Stedman, Linda E. Kruger; title: Integrating Divergent Representations of Place into Decision Contexts  -- Damon M. Hall, Susan J. Gilbertz, Cristi C. Horton, Tarla Rai Peterson; title: Sharing Stories of Place to Foster Social Learning  -- William P. Stewart, Troy D. Glover, James R. Barkley; title: Rural Property, Collective Action, and Place-Based Conservation  -- Paul Van Auken, Shaun Golding; title: Whose Sense of Place? A Political Ecology of Amenity Development  -- Patrick T. Hurley; title: Participatory Place Mapping in Fire Planning  -- Michael Cacciapaglia, Laurie Yung; title: Participatory Mapping of Place Values in Northwestern Ontario  -- Norman McIntyre, Perrine Lesueur, Jeff Moore; title: Place Mapping to Protect Cultural Landscapes on Tribal Lands  -- Alan Watson, Stephen Carver, Roian Matt, Tim Waters, Kari Gunderson, Brett Davis; title: Place Attachment for Wildland Recreation Planning  -- Neal Christensen, James Burchfield; title: Conclusion: From describing to prescribing--transitioning to place-based conservation -- Daniel R. Williams, William P. Stewart, and Linda E. Kruger.