Towards a developmental theory of place attachment

Morgan, Paul L.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.07.001

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“…One of these terms (sometimes used interchangeably with sense of place) is place attachment, which evolved from Bowlby's (1969) theory of attachment between children and their caregivers; this theory centers on an infant's desire to maintain closeness to the object of attachment and the impact of this relationship on well-being (Bowlby 1969, Hidalgo and Hernandez 2001, Morgan 2010. It has since been operationalized in a number of fields of research including environmental psychology, leisure studies, environmental education, and migration studies.…”

Section: What Is Sense Of Place and How Do We Measure It?mentioning

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The dynamic relationship between sense of place and risk perception in landscapes of mobility

Quinn¹,

Bousquet²,

Guerbois³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. Coastal areas are exposed to changing patterns of mobility and increasingly extreme weather events, offering unique opportunities to study the complexity of adaptation to global changes and the diversity of responses to risk. How individuals and communities respond to risk varies widely, however traditional rationalist and economic based understandings have proved limited in explaining responses to risk. Increasingly social science, and specifically, a focus on peoples' relationships with their local places is providing a useful approach to understanding human responses to place based change. We bring together literature on sense of place, mobility, risk perception, and adaptation and develop a conceptual model to highlight the dynamic links between these processes. In particular we concentrate on a way of understanding risk that focuses on the role of different types of attachments to place. We explore this model using a pilot study (n = 70) and present data that indicates how different types of place attachments are significant in whether people perceive themselves to be at risk of flooding. Our review and results emphasize the interconnectivity of social and environmental change, and suggests that by identifying particular place attachments, as shaped by mobility, we can deepen our understanding of how communities choose to respond to risk.

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The dynamic relationship between sense of place and risk perception in landscapes of mobility

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Bousquet²,

Guerbois³

et al. 2018

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“…Attachment theory has expanded over the last thirty years to include other social relationships between adults (Hazan & Shaver, 1994) and other social environments (Milligan, 1998;Wiles, Allen, Palmer, Hayman, Keeling, & Kerse, 2009) including one's neighbourhood (Brown, Perkins, & Brown, 2003 and places (Kyle, Graefe, Manning, & Bacon, 2004a;Kyle, Mowen, & Tarrant 2004b;Garrod, 2008;Morgan, 2010).…”

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Place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework

Ramkissoon

Weiler

Smith

2012

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper critically examines the concept of place attachment and its likely influence on proenvironmental behavioural intention of visitors. It considers place attachment as a multidimensional construct comprising place dependence, place identity, place affect, and place social bonding, and suggests that research investigating this relationship in a national park context is fragmented, scattered, and often does not fully consider its multi-dimensional nature. A coherent and integrated approach is needed to advance the field. By considering place attachment as an attitude and acknowledging the close relationship between attitude and behavioural intention when both are directed toward a particular object or environment, the paper develops a conceptual framework that integrates the different place attachment subconstructs. It presents their relationship to pro-environmental behavioural intention as a series of propositions. The framework further considers place satisfaction to exert a direct influence on visitors' pro-environmental behavioural intentions in national parks and a moderating effect on the relationship between the different place constructs and proenvironmental behavioural intention in parks. Finally, the latter construct is proposed to influence visitors' general pro-environmental behavioural intentions. The paper's theoretical contributions, its limitations and its practical implications for sustainable tourism in general and national park management in particular, are discussed.

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“…In line with these foci, the complex relations between humans and nature -meaning-making and bonding to a place or natural resources -have been the subject of investigation in several disciplines such as ethnography, human ecology, demography, sociology, and environmental psychology (e.g., Moeller & Engelken, 1972;Proshansky et al, 1983;Bonaiuto et al, 1996;Twigger-Ross & Uzzell, 1996;Williams & Stewart, 1998;Davenport & Anderson, 2005;Jorgensen & Stedman, 2006;Morgan, 2010;Scannell & Gifford, 2010;Raymond et al, 2010). However, there is a lack of studies that explicitly explore theories linking the complex relationships, learning and knowledge that humans form in and of ecosystems (e.g., Urquhart & Acott, 2013).…”

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Learning ecosystem complexity: a study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation

Garavito-Bermúdez

2016

Environmental Education Research

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Small-scale fisheries are learning contexts of importance for generating, transferring, and updating ecological knowledge of natural environments through everyday work practices. The rich knowledge fishers have of local ecosystems is the result of the intimate relationship fishing communities have had with their natural environments across generations (see e.g. Urquhart and Acott 2013). This relationship develops strong emotional bonds to the physical and social place. For fishing communities and fisherswho depend directly on local ecosystems to maintain their livelihoodsfishing environments are natural places for living, working and defining themselves. Previous research on fishers' ecological knowledge has mainly been descriptive, i.e., has focused on aspects such as reproduction, nutrition and spatial-temporal distribution and population dynamics, from a traditional view of knowledge that only recognises scientific knowledge as the true knowledge. By doing this, fishers' ecological knowledge has been investigated separately from the learning contexts in which it is generated, ignoring the influence of social, cultural and historical aspects that characterise fishing communities, and the complex relationships between fishers and the natural environments they live and work in. This thesis investigates ecological knowledge among small-scale fishers living and working in the ecosystems of Lake Vättern and the Blekinge Archipelago (Baltic Sea) in Sweden and explores how ecological knowledge is generated with particular regard to the influences of work and nature on fishers' knowledge of ecosystems. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of informal learning processes of ecosystem complexity among small-scale fishers. This knowledge further contributes to the research field of ecological knowledge and sustainable use and management of natural resources. It addresses the particular research questions of what ecological knowledge fishers generate, and how its generation is influenced by their fishing work practices and relationships to nature.The thesis consists of three articles. Article I focuses on the need to address the significant lack of theoretical and methodological frameworks for the investigation of the cognitive aspects involved in the generation of ecological knowledge. Article II deals with the need to develop theoretical, methodological and empirical frameworks that avoid romanticising and idealising users' ecological knowledge in local (LEK), indigenous (IEK) and traditional (TEK) ecological knowledge research, by rethinking it as being generated through work practices. Article III addresses the lack of studies that explicitly explore theories linking complex relations and knowledge that humans form within and of ecosystems. It also addressed the lack of attention from environmental education researchers to theory and empirical studies of 'sense of place' research, with a particular focus on environmental learning. Research into the question of what ecologic...

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Towards a developmental theory of place attachment

Cited by 402 publications

References 20 publications

The dynamic relationship between sense of place and risk perception in landscapes of mobility

The dynamic relationship between sense of place and risk perception in landscapes of mobility

Place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework

Learning ecosystem complexity: a study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation

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