To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care
about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place …

Understanding sense of place and related concepts often presents challenges for both
managers and researchers. Inconsistent application of terms, questions regarding their …

Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant
transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic …

Drawing on critical pluralism and positionality, this essay offers a four-part framework for
making sense of the manifold ways place has been studied and applied to landscape …

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 of place …

This article presents the findings of an interpretive investigation of the meanings that local
community members attribute to the Niobrara National Scenic River in north central …

Coastal ecosystems are increasingly faced with human impacts. To better understand these
changing conditions, biophysical and economic values of nature have been used to …

We live in a human-dominated world and the pace and scale of changes to the biosphere,
from climate change to landuse change, are staggering. Accelerated socio-economic …

This study uses sense of place to empirically compare, in two case study cities, how people
connect with the peri-urban green space which they visit most often for their leisure activities …

Human activities affect Earth's life support systems so profoundly as to threaten many of the
ecological services that are essential to society. To address this challenge, a new science …