Sociodemographic effects on place bonding

Dimensions of Landscape Stewardship across Europe: Landscape Values, Place Attachment, Awareness, and Personal Responsibility

“…Leaving aside deeper psychological components that go beyond the scope of this study (e.g., held values, norms, and beliefs), here we focus on four dimensions that might contribute to commitment towards landscape stewardship: perception of landscape values [18], attachment of people to places [19,20], awareness of the adverse consequences human action can have on landscapes [21,22], and ascription of personal responsibility for maintaining perceived landscape values [23][24][25].…”

“…Place attachment, defined as "the emotional bond between a person and a particular place" [19] (p. 443), is considered a driver of landscape stewardship [15,33]. This emotional bonding can be complemented by functional bonding, resulting from the dependence of people on the functions a landscape provides to their well-being [19,34], and is therefore connected to the specific biophysical and social characteristics of particular places (see natural and social bonding in Raymond et al [20]).…”

“…This emotional bonding can be complemented by functional bonding, resulting from the dependence of people on the functions a landscape provides to their well-being [19,34], and is therefore connected to the specific biophysical and social characteristics of particular places (see natural and social bonding in Raymond et al [20]). This can generate a relationship of reciprocity between individual perception of landscape values and attachment to a place.…”

Conceptualization and Measurement of Dimensionality of Place Attachment

“…Relph (1976) suggests that as people's experience with a place becomes deeper and more diverse, the affective attachment grows over time as well. Affective attachment is one very important dimension of place attachment, because it can generate feelings of well-being and security that a person draws from a place (Nielsen-Pincus, Hall, Force, & Wulfhorst, 2010). In addition, affective attachment "involves an interplay of affect and emotions, knowledge and beliefs, and behaviors and actions in reference to a place" (Altman & Low, 1992, p. 5).…”

Urban Landscapes and Identity

“…The emotional bonding between people and places has been defined as place attachment by Altman and Low in their work "Place Attachment" (1992) [21]. However, according to Chow and Healey (2008), place attachment is a more complex and multifaceted phenomenon which involves the interplay of not only affect and emotions, but also knowledge and beliefs, and behaviours and actions in reference to a place [20].…”