2. Loss, Attachment, and Place: Land Loss and Community in Coastal Louisiana

Burley, David M.; Jenkins, Pam; Azcona, Brian

doi:10.1016/s1479-3520(06)10002-1

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“…Knowledge about how residents relate to places can inform land-use decisions and, in particular, restoration policy for environmentally degraded areas. There is often conflict between communities and government agencies over land-use decisions, and this appears more likely for issues of ecological restoration (Burley, Jenkins, & Azcona, 2006;Curry & McGuire, 2002). As environmentally degraded places are more frequently restored, understanding how communities relate to their places can potentially assist in reducing conflict and giving communities a more active role in restorative processes.…”

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Place Attachment and Environmental Change in Coastal Louisiana

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This article examines how residents of communities frame environmental change. Specifically, how do respondents from Louisiana's coastal communities understand coastal wetland loss? For this article, the authors rely on 47 in-depth interviews from communities in two coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. The authors use a phenomenological approach that focuses on how stories are told and the subjective interpretations of societal members. Residents' narratives of place reveal a strong degree of place attachment where ideas of fragility and uniqueness are employed to frame the place in which they live. The authors suggest that the slow onset disaster of coastal land loss forces a constant and heightened awareness of place attachment. The data for this study are collected during 2002 and 2003, and although restoration processes are well underway, for the most part, residents felt shut out. Their alienation increases their sense of fragility about place, and they warn of disasters like those of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. As major restoration plans are considered, the nature of residents' place attachment can shed light on the role the communities themselves can play in policy and restoration projects. In this regard, the meanings in residents' attachments are important for how and what decisions are made.

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Place Attachment and Environmental Change in Coastal Louisiana

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“…Drawing on the seminal work of Erving Goffman, the concept of self-identity pertains to a specified role that an individual embraces and affirms to others in social situations (Goffman 1959). Self-identity may be based on factors such as occupation, family ties, place of residence or association with a particular region or geographic feature (Burley et al 2005). It is well-established within Environmental Values 27.1 the anthropological, sociological and allied literatures that individual and group identities are often associated with a specific area or place Escobar 2001;Hess et al 2008).…”

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“…Although young residents may move away in search of opportunity, older residents would view leaving Grand Isle as something akin to a personal, moral failure. Although outsiders view Grand Isle as a vulnerable series of nearly inundated parcels connected by thin threads of roadway, residents attach a different, more nuanced, view to the locality of their homes, community, and source of livelihood (Burley et al 2005).…”

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Self-Identity and Sense of Place: Some Thoughts regarding Climate Change Adaptation Policy Formulation

Herrick¹

2018

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The formulation and implementation of policies addressing the need to adapt to climate change can be difficult due to the long-term, uncertain nature of localised climate change impacts and associated vulnerabilities. Difficulties are intensified because policy interventions can involve high costs, foregone opportunity and changes to people's way of life. Factors such as these can spur an uncritical, or reflexive, negativity regarding efforts to address the projected impacts of climate change. Such reflexive negativity is often trivialised in pejorative terms, such as 'Nimbyism'. However, stakeholder reluctance to accept the need for adaptation planning may be strongly influenced by self-perceptions that are resistant to change. People's sense of self and sense of place may contribute to an 'imaginative intangibility' with respect to climate adaptation, blocking thoughtful reflection and deliberation regarding alternative approaches and providing rationales for cheating the system once implemented. If acknowledged and addressed in a sensitive manner, it may be possible to manage these self-perceptions to elevate public discourse about climate change and help create situationally appropriate adaptation policy regimes.

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