Sense of place: A process for identifying and negotiating potentially contested visions of sustainability

摘要: Abstract This article identifies opportunities and challenges to using sense of place as motivation for long-term stewardship at multiple spatial scales in a rapidly changing world. Sense reflects processes by which individuals or groups identify, attach to, depend on, modify places, well the meanings, values, feelings that associate with place. These associations are fluid through time they felt, imagined, interpreted, understood. appears most strongly motivate actions local under circumstances where people value same reasons, conditions deteriorating. We suggest well-recognized build attachment could create reservoir potential stewardship, if locally valued places were deteriorate, as, example, response climate change. does not always promote however, because attitudes may lead actions, some do sustainability, different identities goals (e.g., conservation vs. development). In situations is deeply contested, we best fostered transparent respectful dialogue identify shared values concerns negotiate areas disagreement. As result increased human mobility globalization, interact many satisfy their desires needs. this opens new types regional, national, global scales. Approaches such discourse analysis, boundary concepts, incompletely theorized agreement, common property theory explicitly address contested concepts might contribute significantly fostering sustainability divided