Place Meanings and Participatory Planning Intentions

Kil, Namyun; Holland, Stephen M.; Stein, Taylor V.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2013.842274

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“…Effective forest management depends on understanding the cultural importance of places for local communities and stakeholders, which can shape community response to landscape change or proposed actions (Kil et al . ).…”

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“…Enduring personal relationships between federal employees and members of local communities are also important but are difficult to maintain given the frequent relocation of agency personnel, driven by personal decisions or agency policy (Cerveny et al 2018). Effective forest management depends on understanding the cultural importance of places for local communities and stakeholders, which can shape community response to landscape change or proposed actions (Kil et al 2014).…”

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Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?

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Long

Charnley

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Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management plans for these national forests – which were amended by the NWFP – are now being evaluated for revision under the US Forest Service's 2012 planning rule. To help inform federal land managers, we reviewed the scientific literature published since the inception of the NWFP and report several key findings: (1) conservation of at‐risk species within national forests is challenging in the face of threats that are beyond the control of federal managers, (2) management efforts to promote resilience to wildfire and climate change include restoring dynamics and structure at multiple scales and revisiting reserve design, (3) forest restoration can have an ecological and socioeconomic win–win outcome, (4) human communities benefit from many ecosystem services beyond the supply of timber, (5) collaboration among multiple stakeholders is essential for achieving ecological and socioeconomic goals, and (6) monitoring and adaptive management are crucial to learning about and addressing uncertainty.

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Section: Collaboration Is Essentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?

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Long

Charnley

et al. 2019

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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“…1) to link the intangible place meanings that individuals associated with the dammed river environment to other factors that may influence acceptance of dam removal. The framework draws on research on place meanings (Williams and Patterson 1999, Davenport and Anderson 2005, Smith et al 2011, Kil et al 2014) and research that conceptualizes project opposition as a desire to protect places (Stedman 2002, Devine-Wright 2009, Devine-Wright and Howes 2010, Anderson et al 2013. Here, we focused on the concepts in bold (Fig.…”

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“…Many studies distinguish two main types of place meanings: tangible and intangible (Table 1; Williams and Patterson 1999, Davenport and Anderson 2005, Smith et al 2011, Kil et al 2014. Tangible meanings are defined as properties of the location and can therefore be viewed as objective, verifiable, and relatively functional.…”

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“…Although efforts have been made to identify the types of attachment associated with acceptance (Devine-Wright 2013), less attention has been paid to differentiating the variety of meanings, both tangible and intangible, among those who accept and those who oppose a project. Distinguishing the different forms of place meanings and their qualitative character, as opposed to the strength of place attachment, is helpful for informed decision making that contributes to sustaining locally important place meanings, as well as for understanding conflicts that may arise (Kil et al 2014).…”

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The role of place meanings in opposition to water-related infrastructure projects: the case of the Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick, Canada

Reilly¹,

Adamowski²,

John³

2019

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2019. The role of place meanings in opposition to water-related infrastructure projects: the case of the Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick, Canada. Ecology and Society 24(4):34. https://doi.ABSTRACT. Place attachment is often associated with opposition to infrastructure projects that change the characteristics of locations, including dam construction and removal. It has been suggested that in circumstances in which a project's perceived impacts are compatible with prevailing tangible place meanings, projects can be accepted even where local place attachment is strong. Here, we focus on the role of intangible place meanings in opposition to and acceptance of the potential removal of the Mactaquac Dam in New Brunswick, Canada. Based on interviews with 32 local stakeholders, we identified a range of place meanings related to community and personal identity. Continuity over time, community distinctiveness, and the role of various activities and experiences in developing identity were key themes. Those who wanted to retain the dam and those who wanted to remove the dam shared many meanings and only diverged in two community meanings. We suggest that conflict between the two groups may either be primarily based in different tangible meanings but escalated by the more emotional tangible meanings or that the two diverging community meanings were highly important. Further studies should investigate the specific role of intangible meanings in conflict where place attachment is strong.

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Mapping Meaningful Places on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Landscape Values

Cerveny

Biedenweg

McLain

2017

Environmental Management

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Landscape values mapping has been widely employed as a form of public participation GIS (PPGIS) in natural resource planning and decision-making to capture the complex array of values, uses, and interactions between people and landscapes. A landscape values typology has been commonly employed in the mapping of social and environmental values in a variety of management settings and scales. We explore how people attribute meanings and assign values to special places on the Olympic Peninsula (Washington, USA) using both a landscape values typology and qualitative responses about residents' place-relationships. Using geographically referenced social values data collected in community meetings (n = 169), we identify high-frequency landscape values and examine how well the landscape values are reflected in open-ended descriptions of place-relations. We also explore the various interpretations of 14 landscape values used in the study. In particular, we investigate any overlapping meanings or blurriness among landscape values and reveal potentially emergent landscape values from the qualitative data. The results provide insights on the use of landscape values mapping typologies for practitioners and researchers engaged in the mapping of social values for PPGIS.

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Place Meanings and Participatory Planning Intentions

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?

Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?

The role of place meanings in opposition to water-related infrastructure projects: the case of the Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick, Canada

Mapping Meaningful Places on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Landscape Values

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