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Redefining community based on place attachment in a connected world

Abstract
- The concept of community is often used in environmental policy to foster environmental stewardship and public participation, crucial prerequisites of effective management. However, prevailing conceptualizations of community based on residential location or resource use are limited with respect to their utility as surrogates for communities of shared environment-related interests, and because of the localist perspective they entail. Thus, addressing contemporary sustainability challenges, which tend to involve transnational social and environmental interactions, urgently requires additional approaches to conceptualizing community that are compatible with current globalization. We propose a framing for redefining community based on place attachment (i.e., the bonds people form with places) in the context of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Area threatened by drivers requiring management and political action at scales beyond the local.
- External link to download this item: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712125114
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Date
- 2017
Author
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Gurney, G.G.
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Blythe, J.
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Helen, A.
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Adger, W.N.
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Curnock, M.
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Faulkner, L.
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James, T.
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Marshall, N.A.
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Type
- Journal Article
Publisher
- United States National Academy of Sciences