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. PlaceBased Conservation provides a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners to help build the conceptual grounding necessary to understand and to effectively practice placebased conservation.

Inhaltsangabe1: 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