Place Attachment and Its Consequence for Landscape-Scale Management and Readiness to Participate: Social Network Complexity in the Post-Soviet Rural Context of Latvia and Estonia

摘要: This paper uses the tripartite place attachment framework to examine six rural parishes across Estonia and Latvia. Existing analyses/frameworks on participatory processes often neglect complexity of relationships that residents have their local environments. From a qualitative analysis face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with case study area inhabitants (23 in 27 Latvia), we depict varying degrees individuals each other which they live readiness participate terms willingness ability landscape-scale management process. Attachment was strongest where social ties were strongest, independent sociogeographical features. Social strong there good family connections or religious cultural institutions. Taking individual engaging through in-depth using gives an overall perspective life location. These findings reveal important within communities potential for planners engage possible barriers participation.