Harnessing place attachment for local climate mitigation? Hypothesising connections between broadening representations of place and readiness for change

Public engagement in local environmental planning and decision-making is often advocated on various grounds, both instrumental and normative. Yet in developed countries in the context of renewable energy infrastructure deployment, place attachment, place identity and place-protective action continue to be implicated in public objection. We set out an interdisciplinary change readiness hypothesis of specifically how local participatory scenario or visioning processes that include climate mitigation measures may support the mobilisation of place attachment for climate mitigation, including renewable energy deployment. We hypothesise that local visioning may support movement towards change readiness by helping to anchor unfamiliar social representations of low carbon energy infrastructure and new patterns of urban form in existing, more positive representations of localities and associated attachments. To this end, seeking ways to modify threat perceptions relating to climate change and renewable energy infrastructure is advocated as a key direction for study.     

居民点地名起源分类法——以茂名市各个镇为例

地名是人们日常提及最多、使用最多的词语之一,对我们的日常生活、社会活动和经济活动都重要的影响.每个地名都有它产生的过程,认识地名的起源,对研究一个地区的文化有重要的意义.地名起源是地名研究的重要部分,以往的地名起源分类多以概括性为主,缺少系统的分类方法.该研究从地理要素的角度,将居民点地名起源其分化为自然环境、人文和经济社会三个一级类,二十七个二级分类,自然环境分类又划分了三级和四级分类.根据这一分类方法,以茂名市各个镇的地名为例,将居民点地名分类法运用到区域地名的研究中,并阐述其分类过程中的一些基本原则.     

平顶山矿区塌陷地区位分析与分区利用

矿区塌陷地是一种重要的土地资源和资产,对其利用要在空间上进行科学的规划和合理的布局。土地分区利用原理使我们对矿区塌陷地的利用由盲目的农业复垦而转到自觉的进行区位选择,使平顶山矿区塌陷地的利用符合其区位特征,从而实现塌陷地区位效益。     

The measurement of place attachment: Personal,community, and environmental connections

Place attachment has been researched extensively in the social and behavioural sciences over the past two decades. However, it is challenging for researchers to assimilate the mixed messages presented in the place attachment literature and to understand the multiple place attachment terms. In this study, a four-dimensional model of rural landholder attachments to their natural resource management region was conceptually and empirically developed with the aim of developing an integrated approach to the measurement of place attachment that clearly distinguishes between different elements of place scholarship. A 29-item place attachment scale with the dimensions of place identity, place dependence, nature bonding, and social bonding was tested on a random sample of rural landholders in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia (N = 320). The majority of respondents were male (69.3%) and the average age was 59 years. The scale was reduced to 20-items and then administered simultaneously and in the same response format to rural landholders in two other areas of South Australia: the Northern and Yorke region (N = 664) and South Australian Murray-Darling Basin region (N = 659). In both studies, the majority of respondents were male (85%) and the average age was 55 years. Exploratory factor and reliability analyses of Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges and Northern and Yorke datasets produced a five-dimensional model of place attachment with high reliabilities. Social bonding divided into the constructs of family bonding and friend bonding. The refined five-dimensional model was then examined for convergent validity, with moderate but significant correlations found between individual attachment constructs and dependent variables expected to be related to the construct, such as place identity and length of residence, and nature bonding and time currently spent in nature. We used confirmatory factor analysis to test the goodness-of-fit of the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin (SAMDB) dataset to the proposed five-dimensional model and then compared its fit to the traditional two-dimensional model of place identity and place dependence. The five-dimensional model provided moderate fit for the SAMDB data. We conclude with a discussion of the validity and reliability of the five-dimensional model and its future role in place attachment research.     

On Seeing “Places” for What They Are,and Not What We Want Them to Be

For more than 40 years, scholars have been investigating psychological and communicative implications for the concept of place. During that time, a variety of methods have been employed, yet often without an obvious concern for the extent to which investigative conclusions match perceptions held by respondents who originally generate data the analyses rely upon. Although this distinction between actors’ and informants’ meanings for place is a subject most in the field of environmental communication encounter in their formative education, the actual practice of place-based research sometimes fails to adequately address the issue. Thus, the following commentary explores various threats to representational validity and suggests a number of areas we researchers should consider when conducting our place-based studies. In urging ourselves to rise to the challenge of self-skepticism, I hope my analysis provides a modestly novel take on empiricism regarding what places mean to those we study.     

九寨沟旅游者地方感对资源保护态度的影响

地方感是国外游憩地理学和环境心理学的研究热点,旅游者地方感对其资源保护态度与行为的影响是地方感应用研究的重要内容。以九寨沟为例,设计量表测量了旅游者的地方感及其资源保护态度,通过构建结构方程模型探讨了旅游者地方感与其资源保护态度的关系。研究结果表明：（1）九寨沟的自然风景、社会人文对旅游功能有显著的正向影响,自然风景、旅游功能对旅游者的情感依恋有显著的正向影响;（2）旅游者的资源保护态度直接受其对九寨沟的情感依恋的影响,九寨沟的自然风景、社会人文和旅游功能主要通过旅游者的情感依恋影响资源保护态度,情感依恋在其中起着媒介作用;（3）对自然风景的感知评价是影响旅游者的资源保护态度的主要因素;（4）感知体验水平越高的旅游者,对九寨沟资源环境保护的重要性的认同程度也越高。最后讨论了增强旅游者资源保护意识的途径以及地方感研究的实际意义     

用最小离差平方和法优化监测断面

本文提出了一个优化地面水监测断面的新方法－最小离差平方和法。该方法采用的基本原理是在保证水质监测的代表性和可靠性的前提下，使优化前后水质监测总均值的离差平方和最小。这样不仅使优化后的断面保证了代表性，而且使整个水体的监测数据具有一定的延续性。该方法在松花江吉林江段上应用是成功的。     

北方缓流水体水质在线自动监测系统采样口的设计思考

以DO作为水体的污染指标来判定水质类别存在一定的缺陷,北方缓流水体在不同季节常存在不同的DO分层现象,现设在河床底以上0.5米处的自动监测采样口设计缺少科学性。在叙述缓流水体DO特点的同时,介绍一种新的水质在线自动监测采样口的方案,便于类似水体水质自动监测设计中借鉴。     

人群拥挤踩踏事故的场所高危点统计与分析

本文首先对人群拥挤踩踏事故的发生场所进行了统计,通过对场所的特征分析,总结了学校、宗教场所、体育场所、街道、歌舞娱乐场所、地铁站、公园、大型商场等人群容易聚集场所的事故高危点。然后对楼梯、过道、坡面、桥梁、出入口、地下通道等高危点进行了详尽的分析,并对高危点的特点进行了总结,分析了高危点的危险度。本文的统计与分析结果能够为人群聚集活动的安全预案制定、高危点识别、安保人员设置等提供客观的参考。     

Examining Community Perceptions of Energy Systems Development: The Role of Communication and Sense of Place

An increasing demand for the development and implementation of low carbon energy systems has furthered the need to understand the factors that influence a community's support for or opposition to local energy developments. Carbon dioxide capture and geological storage (CCS) is one such energy system where it is widely acknowledged that public perceptions and acceptance of CCS technologies are critical to their implementation. CCS refers to the capture of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources and the long-term storage of these emissions in stable underground reservoirs. This case study examines how place attachment and community networks factored into resident's perceptions of a proposed CCS project that was ultimately canceled due to local opposition. Participants were concerned about preserving shared places, spaces, and interactions that were valued by community members. Results demonstrate the need to ascertain how locally affected populations view CCS or other energy developments, especially with regard to their ideas about community, sense of place (ties to area and local relationships), and how they communicate about those factors. Such factors are important given the initiative to develop low carbon energy systems in rural areas.