Effects of Scale and the Biophysical Environment on Sense of Place in Northeastern Wisconsin’s Bioregions

Eanes, Francis R.; Robinson, Patrick W.; Silbernagel, Janet

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“…Sense of place is the result of the interaction between individual perceptions and the external environment ( Relph, 1997 , 2007 ). Therefore, both personal characteristics and external environment can be influential factors in sense of place ( Steele, 1981 ; Kaltenborn, 1998 ; De Bres and Davis, 2001 ; Stedman, 2002 ; Ortiz et al, 2004 ; Williams and Kitchen, 2012 ; Eanes et al, 2018 ; Hu and Chen, 2018 ; Rast, 2018 ; Sheybani and Poursoleiman Amiri, 2018 ). The family, which plays an important role for the individual, both acts as the environment and leads to differences in other factors ( Evans and English, 2002 ; Ackerman et al, 2004 ; Frewen et al, 2015 ; Wang and Huang, 2021 ).…”

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The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and sense of place

Zhang

Liang²,

Su³

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Front. Psychol.

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Few studies have examined how family capital affects the sense of place, and the effect of spatial thinking on the relationship between the two is unclear. This study constructs a mediation model to examine the impact of family capital on sense of place and the mediation effect of geospatial thinking. A total of 1,004 upper-secondary-school students were surveyed using the Family Capital Questionnaire, the Geospatial Thinking Test, and the Sense of Place Scale. The correlation analysis showed that family capital has a positive effect on both sense of place and geospatial thinking. Moreover, there is also a significant positive correlation between geospatial thinking and sense of place. The results of mediation analysis indicated that geospatial thinking plays mediating and buffering roles in the relationship between family capital and sense of place after controlling for gender and residential address. The direct and indirect effects accounted for 73.31 and 26.69% of the total effect, respectively. Specifically, family capital is a significant positive predictor of both sense of place and geospatial thinking, and geospatial thinking partially mediates the relationship between family capital and sense of place. Students from better family backgrounds are more likely to have a better geospatial thinking and sense of place, as well as geospatial thinking promotes the development of a sense of place. Therefore, both family capital and geospatial thinking should be considered when we want to examine and develop individuals’ level of sense of place.

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The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and sense of place

Zhang

Liang²,

Su³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Table 2, pg. 85, Eanes et al., 2018). While social scaling tended towards an attachment intensity peak at the ‘narrow’ scale (e.g.…”

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“…Eanes et al. (2018) is among the first to attach the concept of scale to dimensions other than space, identifying both biophysical and social scaling as important elements of place attachment (e.g. Table 2, pg.…”

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“…immediate family), biophysical scaling centred on the ‘broad’ scale (called ‘bioregion’ by Eanes et al. (2018)). These studies of PAT scaling suggest that an individual's attachment expressed through geographical, social and natural or biophysical lenses is both variable and flexible, and may include or exclude places, people and processes from the immediate to the immense.…”

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Shapeshifting attachment: Exploring multi‐dimensional people–place bonds in place‐based citizen science

Haywood

Parrish

2020

People and Nature

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Research on citizen science programmes has highlighted that they can foster science content and knowledge gain, enhance pro‐environmental behaviour and cultivate civic action among participants. Especially in the case of place‐based citizen science, which requires hands‐on repeated activity in an out‐of‐door setting through a scientific lens, evidence suggests that some of these outcomes may be linked to the unique people–place relationships and interactions afforded by such programmes. Even still, studies that empirically examine the influence of place on citizen science participant and programme outcomes are scant. This is due, in part, to the methodological challenges involved in interrogating complex aspects of a person's sense of place—aspects like place attachment—the emotional bonds between people and place. Here, an adapted three‐dimensional model of place attachment is proposed as a theoretical framework from which place‐based citizen science experiences and outcomes might be empirically examined in depth. The model, which posits personal, social and natural environment dimensions of place attachment is contextualized with research findings from the US‐based Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) citizen science programme. Data from COASST suggest that participants do exhibit place attachment in all three dimensions of attachment, categorized within seven unique constructs, although questions remain regarding the unique intensity, make‐up (shape) and scale (spatial, social and nature‐science) of individual‐level attachment along the three central dimensions. Critically, more research is needed to investigate whether the unique place attachment ‘profile’ of participants is a function of personal, social or programmatic variables pre‐ and post‐programme participation. To encourage further scholarship on potential links between the experiences, exposures and programme components of place‐based citizen science and the place attachment profiles of participants, this paper includes a brief review of the research opportunities presented by the adapted three‐dimensional place attachment model discussed. Advancing this line of inquiry is an important component of broader efforts to understand how sense of place is altered via place‐based citizen science and whether or not that is linked to specific programme outputs or participant outcomes in science knowledge, ecological understanding and civic engagement. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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Participatory mobile- and web-based tools for eliciting landscape knowledge and perspectives: introducing and evaluating the Wisconsin geotools project

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Effects of Scale and the Biophysical Environment on Sense of Place in Northeastern Wisconsin’s Bioregions

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and sense of place

The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and sense of place

Shapeshifting attachment: Exploring multi‐dimensional people–place bonds in place‐based citizen science

Participatory mobile- and web-based tools for eliciting landscape knowledge and perspectives: introducing and evaluating the Wisconsin geotools project

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