Place-Based Conservation - Perspectives from the Social Sciences

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.

List 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Linda E Kruger (Editor), Linda Kruger (Editor), Linda E. Kruger (Editor), Danie R Williams (Editor), Daniel R Williams (Editor), William P. Stewart (Editor), Daniel R. Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9789400796652
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079665-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 423 g
• Illustrations: XII, 264 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; B, Sustainability, Geography, Urban Planning, Environment, Sustainable Development, The environment, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Conservation Biology, Nature Conservation, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Regional & area planning, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Human Geography