Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone

Stedman, Richard C.; Ingalls, Micah

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9947-1_10

Cited by 25 publications

(23 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In contrast, sudden threats may immediately challenge the viability of meanings and identity and may potentially trigger a reaction. Following disasters, the personal need to engage with the natural environment and to act to restore important place meanings may both create engagements with biophysical places (Tidball 2012, Stedman andIngalls 2014) and rally a community to transformative action (Folke et al 2005, Tidball andKrasny 2014). This can contribute to the understanding of what catalyzes and frames constructive collective action for transformation.…”

Section: The Influence Of Chronic Versus Acute Changes On Sense Of Plmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A more coherent engagement with insights from resilience thinking, regarding, for example, cross-scale dynamics, functional diversity, and threshold effects (Folke 2006), would contribute to a fuller understanding of the biophysical elements of place. What are the roles of ecosystem qualities such as biodiversity and ecological integrity in forming and nurturing "sense of naturein-place" (Stedman and Ingalls 2014)? How does ecosystem change, incremental and rapid, affect sense of place (e.g., Tidball and Stedman 2013)?…”

Section: Ecologically Informed Meanings or "The Ecology Of Sense Of Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For an example, see Stedman (2003a) and Stedman and Hammer (2006), who quantitatively assessed the relationship between the number of houses on the shoreline of lakes and meanings, attachment, and concern about water quality. Therefore, we view sense of place as an emergent property of a socialbiophysical interaction, although so far, sense of place research has had a limited appreciation of the role of nature and ecology in forming place (but see, e.g., Stedman and Ingalls (2014), who engage the intersection of topophilia and biophilia as mutually constitutive).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

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

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

et al. 2017

E&S

Self Cite

330

273

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

Section: The Influence Of Chronic Versus Acute Changes On Sense Of Plmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ecologically Informed Meanings or "The Ecology Of Sense Of Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

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

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

et al. 2017

E&S

Self Cite

330

273

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It is also well known that postdisaster planning brings its own set of challenges Weinstein 2011). Like other events that radically affect communities, e.g., closing of a factory in a manufacturing town (see Stedman and Ingalls 2012), disasters are known to exacerbate existing inequalities (Peacock et al 1997, Pelling 2003, Blaikie et al 2003, Drennan 2007. Sudden disasters often destroy the physical infrastructure of marginalized or vulnerable communities (Adger et al 2005, Daniels et al 2006) and can severely strain social networks (Walker and Meyers 2004).…”

Section: Background and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience

Tidball¹

2012

E&S

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. This contribution builds upon contemporary work on principles of biological attraction as well as earlier work on biophilia while synthesizing literatures on restorative environments, community-based ecological restoration, and both community and social-ecological disaster resilience. It suggests that when humans, faced with a disaster, as individuals and as communities and populations, seek engagement with nature to further their efforts to summon and demonstrate resilience in the face of a crisis, they exemplify an urgent biophilia. This urgent biophilia represents an important set of human-nature interactions in SES characterized by hazard, disaster, or vulnerability, often appearing in the 'backloop' of the adaptive cycle. The relationships that human-nature interactions have to other components within interdependent systems at many different scales may be one critical source of resilience in disaster and related contexts. In other words, the affinity we humans have for the rest of nature, the process of remembering that attraction, and the urge to express it through creation of restorative environments, which may also restore or increase ecological function, may confer resilience across multiple scales. In making this argument, the paper also represents a novel contribution to further theorizing alternatives to anthropocentric understandings of human-nature relations, and strongly makes the case for humans as part of, not separate from, ecosystems.

show abstract

“…In other words, we also pay attention to the discursive construction of place meanings through language which can reveal the ideas of legitimate use and management of a place and the future desires that people have for a place (Yung et al 2003;Di Masso et al 2014). Therefore, meanings do not compete equally but rather in the midst of hegemonic discourses, structures and power relations and a focus on the discursive presentation of place meanings may help to reveal some of these place shaping structures and relations (Stedman and Ingalls 2013;Ingalls and Stedman 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The trade-offs of win–win conservation rhetoric: exploring place meanings in community conservation on the Wild Coast, South Africa

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In attempts to reconcile conservation and development for poverty alleviation by establishing protected areas, economic values of nature and compensation for loss of access to resources are often prioritized over cultural and personal values. Additionally, conservation interventions in local communities are often hindered by contested visions of sustainability. We explore the utility of place meanings to unpack diverse local interests by examining an intervention that proposed to establish a fenced protected area in a community on the Wild Coast, South Africa. We describe the narratives that argue for or against the project and how they make use of the place meanings attributed to parts of the landscape, including forest, communal grazing land and plantations. We then examine the coalitions behind narratives: groups of actors who share the meanings and constructs of the problem and who employ these for a particular strategy. This allows us to map the negotiation process, and understand how community dissent influences the project. We find that a focus on economic benefits from protected areas neglects alternative meanings, e.g. cultural and spiritual value of forests as well as potential alternative pathways for development such as investing in small-scale agriculture. Our analysis reveals the tension that exists in the 'win-win' discourse of conservation between the rhetoric of sustainable resource use and co-management as well as a trend back towards 'fortress conservation'. A community counter-narrative is successful in stalling the project which illustrates the importance of considering the plurality of meanings for interventions to be sustainable in the long term.

show abstract

Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone

Cited by 25 publications

References 32 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

Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience

The trade-offs of win–win conservation rhetoric: exploring place meanings in community conservation on the Wild Coast, South Africa

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About