Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the
2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new
chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and
mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches.
Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people
and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity,
create meaning in our lives, facilitate community, and influence action.
Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and
belonging, placemaking and displacement, mobility and migration,
intergroup conflict, civic engagement, social housing and urban
redevelopment, natural resource management, and global climate change.
In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together
the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, including
contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams, Mindy Fullilove,
Randy Hester, and David Seamon, to capture significant advancements in
three main areas: theory, methods, and applications. Over the course of
fifteen chapters, using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods,
the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge,
identify significant advances, and point to areas for future research.
This important volume offers the most current understandings about place
attachment, a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and
placemaking professions.
