Place-Based Conservation Perspectives from the Social Sciences [Paperback]

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.

Drawing on diverse fields such as human geography, GIS technology, and environmental psychology, this volume outlines an approach to conservation that hinges on peoples close attachment to their localities and encourages active engagement in preserving them.

1: The Emergence of Place-Based Conservation

Daniel R. Williams*, William P. Stewart, and Linda E. Kruger

Part I: Conceptual Issues of Place-Based Conservation

2: Science, Practice and Place

Daniel R. Williams*

3: Conservation That Connects Multiple Scales of Place

Courtney Flint*

4: Organizational Cultures and Place-Based Conservation

Patricia A. Stokowski*

5: Community, Place, and Conservation

Gene L. Theodori* and Gerard T. Kyle

Part II: Experiencing Place

6: Sensing Value in Place

Herbert Schroeder*

7: Place Meanings as Lived Experience

James R. Barkley* and Linda E. Kruger

8: Personal Experience and Public Place Creation

Tyra Olstad*

9: Volunteer Meanings in the Making of Place