Sense of place: A process for identifying and negotiating potentially contested visions of sustainability

Chapin, F. Stuart; Knapp, Corrine Nöel

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.04.012

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“…Further, it has been argued that contested senses of place can be an obstacle for stewardship (Chapin and Knapp 2015) and, alternatively, that consensus regarding place meanings can contribute to community cohesion and sustainability (Chapin et al 2012). Scholars studying civic engagement in stewardship groups have identified tensions between how different members' relations to a place are articulated (Ernstson and Sörlin 2009) and have started to explore the consequences of such heterogeneity within groups (Enqvist et al 2014).…”

Section: People-place Relations Can Strengthen Protective Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Place has been implicitly invoked in studies linking ecosystem resilience to community well-being (Berkes and Folke 1998), especially in the coevolution of local and traditional ecological knowledge, adaptive institutions, and responding to changes in nature and landscape dynamics (Berkes et al 2000, Olsson and Folke 2001, Tengö and von Heland 2011. Chapin and Knapp (2015) argue that stewardship can be fostered by the place attachments produced through repeated personal experiences filtered through identity and social context. Research focusing on stewardship in urban SES has argued that a stronger sense of place is associated not only with stronger protective norms but also more local ecological knowledge (Andersson et al 2007).…”

Section: Stewardship Practices and Knowledge Are Embedded In Placementioning

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“…However, how do sense of place and sustainable behavior scale up? Can attachment to a local place promote stewardship at a more general level, in a kind of "rooted cosmopolitanism" (Chapin and Knapp 2015)? It has been suggested that "care may be a way to engage people in planetary stewardship by connecting their responses to what they notice in everyday life with their effect on larger environmental systems" (Nassauer 2011:321).…”

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“…Another application relates to successful collaboration: coexistence of multiple different place meanings may create conflict and disrupt community cohesion and stewardship (Yung et al 2003, Chapin et al 2012, Chapin and Knapp 2015. For example, in rural development interventions, rural communities and state actors or nongovernmental organizations may hold different meanings for a particular landscape (e.g., a forest as a threatened and biodiverse wilderness to be protected from human Ecology and Society 22(1): 49 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art49/ use vs. a sacred site for traditional rituals), as shown in a case study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (Masterson 2016).…”

Section: Evaluate How Sense Of Place Patterns Influence the Resiliencmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

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ABSTRACT. To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place theory and methods provide a rich source of insights that, like the socialecological systems perspective, assume an interconnected social and biophysical reality. However, these fields of research are only recently beginning to converge, and we see great potential for further engagement. Here, we present an approach and conceptual tools for how the sense of place perspective can contribute to social-ecological systems research. A brief review focuses on two areas where relation to place is particularly relevant: stewardship of ecosystem services, and responses to change in social-ecological systems. Based on the review, we synthesize specific ways in which sense of place may be applied by social-ecological systems researchers to analyze individual and social behaviors. We emphasize the importance of descriptive place meanings and evaluative place attachment as tools to study the patterned variation of sense of place within or among populations or types of places and the implications for resilience and transformative capacity. We conclude by setting out an agenda for future research that takes into account the concerns of resilience thinking such as the effects of dynamic ecology, interactions between temporal and spatial scales, and the interplay of rapid and incremental change on sense of place and place-related behaviors. This future research agenda also includes concerns from the broader sense of place literature such as the importance of structural power relationships on the creation of place meanings and how scaling up a sense of place may influence pro-environmental behavior.

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Section: Stewardship Practices and Knowledge Are Embedded In Placementioning

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“…Contradictions between social layers of society are constantly growing: the bulk of the population and the elite, the rich and the poor. If such sentiments will continue to grow, it can lead to increased social tensions (Chapin, 2015).…”

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Social Dynamics Of Russian Society In Context Of Socio-Cultural Processes

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2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The role of place in shaping responsibility logics: Revisiting the relation between place and business sustainability

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Place has been suggested to play a role for the sustainability orientation in business. A research gap exists in zooming in further on this relationship and in analysing how the organizational sense of place influences such an orientation. Applying the conceptual lens of institutional logics, we operationalize sustainability orientation as hybrid responsibility logic and analyse the role of place in the forming of such a logic. We present the results of a case study of businesses from a local sustainability network in the German city of Wuppertal and surroundings. Based on qualitative interview data, we found place to function as a coping mechanism in dealing with conflicting logics in the context of sustainability challenges. Across four heuristic types, we describe different roles of place in shaping responsibility logics: from providing the scenery for philanthropic engagement to being the nucleus for transformational efforts.

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Sense of place: A process for identifying and negotiating potentially contested visions of sustainability

Cited by 158 publications

References 52 publications

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Social Dynamics Of Russian Society In Context Of Socio-Cultural Processes

The role of place in shaping responsibility logics: Revisiting the relation between place and business sustainability

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