Place-Based Conservation

Drawing on diverse fields such as human geography, GIS technology, and environmental psychology, this volume outlines an approach to conservation that hinges on people's close attachment to their localities and encourages active engagement in preserving them.

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.
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.

Presents a human-centered approach to conservation that incorporates and draws on the deepest meanings of place Draws on such diverse disciplines as human geography, urban planning, communications, environmental psychology, rural sociology, geographic information systems, and community development Provides strategies for involving the public in conservation planning decisions Benefits land-use planners, conservationists, researchers and policy makers

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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.