Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Emergence of Place-Based Conservation....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Science, Practice, and Place....Pages 21-34
Conservation Connecting Multiple Scales of Place....Pages 35-44
Organizational Cultures and Place-Based Conservation....Pages 45-58
Community, Place, and Conservation....Pages 59-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Sensing Value in Place....Pages 73-87
Place Meanings as Lived Experience....Pages 89-98
Personal Experience and Public Place Creation....Pages 99-107
Volunteer Meanings in the Making of Place....Pages 109-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Integrating Divergent Representations of Place into Decision Contexts....Pages 121-135
Sharing Stories of Place to Foster Social Learning....Pages 137-150
Rural Property, Collective Action, and Place-Based Conservation....Pages 151-163
Whose Sense of Place? A Political Ecology of Amenity Development....Pages 165-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Participatory Place Mapping in Fire Planning....Pages 183-196
Participatory Mapping of Place Values in Northwestern Ontario....Pages 197-210
Place Mapping to Protect Cultural Landscapes on Tribal Lands....Pages 211-222
Place Attachment for Wildland Recreation Planning....Pages 223-233
Conclusion: From Describing to Prescribing—Transitioning to Place-Based Conservation....Pages 235-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-264