Place-Based Conservation, 2013
Perspectives from the Social Sciences

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.

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

Ben Amsden*, Richard C. Stedman, and Linda E. Kruger

Part III: Representing Place

10: Integrating Divergent Representations of Place into Decision Contexts

Damon M. Hall*, Susan J. Gilbertz, Cristi C. Horton, and Tarla Rai Peterson

11: Sharing Stories of Place to Foster Social Learning

William P. Stewart*, Troy D. Glover, and James R. Barkley

12: Rural Property, Collective Action, and Place-Based Conservation

Paul Van Auken* and Shaun Golding

13: Whose Sense of Place? A Political Ecology of Amenity Development

Patrick T. Hurley*

Part IV: Mapping Place

14: Participatory Place Mapping in Fire Planning

Michael Cacciapaglia and Laurie Yung*

15: Participatory Mapping of Place Values in Northwestern Ontario

Norman McIntyre*, Perrine Lesueur and Jeff Moore

16: Place Mapping to Protect Cultural Landscapes on Tribal Lands

Alan Watson*, Steve Carver, Roian Van Ness, Tim Waters, Kari Gunderson, and Brett Davis

17: Place Attachment for Wildland Recreation Planning

Neal Christensen* and James Burchfield

18: From Describing to Prescribing: Transitioning to Place-Based Conservation

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

Presents a human-centered approach to conservation that incorporates and draws on the deepest meanings of place

Draws on such diverse disciplines as human geography, urban planning, communications, environmental psychology, rural sociology, geographic information systems, and community development

Provides strategies for involving the public in conservation planning decisions

Benefits land-use planners, conservationists, researchers and policy makers