Place-Based Conservation Perspectives from the Social Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stewart, William P. (Editor), Williams, Daniel R. (Editor), Kruger, Linda E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Regional planning.; Environmental management.; Nature Conservation.; Sustainable development.; Human Geography.; Environment.; Environmental Management.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Development.; Environment, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5802-5

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 ex...

Table of Contents:

• Contents:
• �1: The Emergence of Place-Based Conservation
• Part I:� Conceptual Issues of Place-Based Conservation
• �2:� Science, Practice and Place
• �3:� Conservation That Connects Multiple Scales of Place
• �4:� Organizational Cultures and Place-Based Conservation
• �5:� Community, Place, and Conservation
• Part II:� Experiencing Place
• �6:� Sensing Value in Place
• �7:� Place Meanings as Lived Experience
• �8:� Personal Experience and Public Place Creation
• �9:� Volunteer Meanings in the Making of Place
• Part III:� Representing Place
• �10:� Integrating Divergent Representations of Place into Decision Contexts
• �11:� Sharing Stories of Place to Foster Social Learning
• �12:� Rural Property, Collective Action, and Place-Based Conservation
• �13:� Whose Sense of Place? A Political Ecology of Amenity Development
• Part IV:� Mapping Place
• �14:� Participatory Place Mapping in Fire Planning
• �15:� Participatory Mapping of Place Values in Northwestern Ontario
• �16:� Place Mapping to Protect Cultural Landscapes on Tribal Lands
• �17:� Place Attachment for Wildland Recreation Planning
• �18:� From Describing to Prescribing: Transitioning to Place-Based Conservation
• Index.