Place-Based Conservation

Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2013
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-5801-8 (ISBN)

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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.
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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.1.2013
Zusatzinfo XII, 264 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Schlagworte Conservation Practice • Landscape Planning • Local knowledge • Place Attachment • stakeholder involvement
ISBN-10 94-007-5801-4 / 9400758014
ISBN-13 978-94-007-5801-8 / 9789400758018
Zustand Neuware
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