Description | Recognition furthermore includes place attachment which refers to the emotional and symbolic relationship that people have with a place. It addresses how people value particular places (and our interest would be how NBS interventions interfere with these valuations, e.g. in a positive or negative sense and with differences between groups in this). The focus can be on the level of the individual/personal or more on the social (community) level of place attachment. Yet another focus is on how a physical environment shapes place bonds (environmental identity and connectedness to nature). Meanings attributed can be gathered and analysed using e.g. storytelling, participatory methods, photo-based methods, psychometric scaling (Raymond 2017b). Learning about diverse place attachments is relevant to take into account when NBS interventions affect these places. Love for nature can be measured with the Connectedness to Nature Scale (Mayer et al., 2004). |
Scale as linked to D2.2 framework | - City
- Neighborhood
- Street
- Household
- Object
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Data source [ link to data framework] | - Socio-economic and demographic information (e.g. existing databases)
- Case-reports written based on data collected in interviews, surveys, storytelling, diaries, Q-sort, (participant) observation workshops and/or other participatory methods to collect peoples’ accounts.
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Needs | - Analytic tools to see how the diversity in the process matches the diversity identified based on socio-demographic data (e.g. using GIS and maps);
- Public participation GIS (PPGIS) methods
- Data collecting and analysis procedures: interviews, surveys, storytelling, diaries, Q-sort, (participant) observation workshops and/or other participatory methods to collect peoples’ accounts and corresponding methods of analysis.
- Methods like Empathy Quotient (a self-report scale that looks at cognitive empathy, emotional reactivity and social skills).
- Love for nature can be measured with the Connectedness to Nature Scale
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Expected Outputs | - Assessment of inclusion of diversity in meanings attached to this place in the process towards realising this NBS.
- Assessment of how this NBS matches with these meanings, emotions.
- Potentially: ideas regarding the maintenance (and improvement) of this NBS in line with/to strengthen place attachment.
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Links and references | - Brown, Raymond and Corcoran 2015
- Hernández, B., Carmen Hidalgo, M., Salazar-Laplace, M. E., & Hess, S. (2007). Place attachment and place identity in natives and non-natives. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 27(4), 310-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.06.003
- Mayer, F.S., & Frantz, C.M. (2004). The connectedness to nature scale: a measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24, 503-515. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2004.10.001
- Raymond et al 2017b:36;
- Williams, D. R., & Vaske, J. J. (2003). The measurement of place attachment : validity and generalizability of a psychometric approach. Forest Science, 49(6), 830-840
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