People's Environmental Stewardship Elements Framed Through Sense of Place

2021

Author : Amer Jane Rollings
Release : 2021
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Download or read book People's Environmental Stewardship Elements Framed Through Sense of Place written by Amer Jane Rollings. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis, Indiana is a sprawling city making it an exceptional locale to pursue environmental learning and stewardship research, particularly in the urban context. To achieve improved understanding of people's attitudes and behaviors towards their natural environment and resources, research was conducted on different local populations of Indianapolis and surrounding metropolitan area. The research's overall aim was to provide greater insight through sense of place on environmental perceptions and actions. The studied subpopulations included families, community members, and young adults and utilized mixed methods to frame inquiry. The qualitative and quantitative data approaches, such as survey instruments and semi-structured interviews, provided multiple avenues of results that could be corroborated to strengthen and confirm outcomes. Each project investigated how people perceive their responsibilities and participate in aspects that are important to environmental sustainability while also identifying potential driving mechanisms for their current and potential behaviors. Extant literature proposes that sense of place can affect a number of dimensions including people's environmental intentions and behaviors. The context of each project considered how sense of place theory intertwined within the outcomes of environmental stewardship. Environmental stewardship is an important means for providing remediation and mitigation, as well as cultivating an ecologically responsible society. Families showed critical overlap in greater environmental awareness and action when topics were near respective residences and immediate surroundings, while informal interaction and formal intervention outlined how consequential messaging and experiential aspects can be when connecting people to resources or areas that are not considered home or familiar. The research suggests conclusive evidence on how to inform and guide on effective modes for producing environmental awareness, knowledge, and stewardship in order to build a more sustainable future.

Re-Framing Urban Space

2015-10-23 Architecture

Author : Im Sik Cho
Release : 2015-10-23
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Re-Framing Urban Space written by Im Sik Cho. This book was released on 2015-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious and contested commodity, but also one of the key vehicles for achieving socially, environmentally and economically sustainable urban living. Past research has been predominantly focused on familiar models of urban space, such as squares, plazas, streets, parks and arcades, without consistent and clear rules on what constitutes good urban space, let alone what constitutes good urban space in ‘high-density context’. Through an innovative and integrative research framework, Re-Framing Urban Space guides the assessment, planning, design and re-design of urban spaces at various stages of the decision-making process, facilitating an understanding of how enduring qualities are expressed and negotiated through design measures in high-density urban environments. This book explores over 50 best practice case studies of recent urban design projects in high-density contexts, including Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, and Rotterdam. Visually compelling and insightful, Re-Framing Urban Space provides a comprehensive and accessible means to understand the critical properties that shape new urban spaces, illustrating key design components and principles. An invaluable guide to the stages of urban design, planning, policy and decision making, this book is essential reading for urban design and planning professionals, academics and students interested in public spaces within high-density urban development.

Aleut Identities

2010 Art

Author : Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner
Release : 2010
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Aleut Identities written by Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary portrait of an Indigenous commercial fishing society in the Arctic.

Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability

2015-04-22 Business & Economics

Author : Elizabeth Auclair
Release : 2015-04-22
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability written by Elizabeth Auclair. This book was released on 2015-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy. With theoretically-informed case studies from leading researchers, the book addresses both concepts and practice, in a range of places and contexts including landscape, townscape, museums, industrial sites, every day heritage, ‘ordinary’ places and the local scene, and even UNESCO-designated sites. The contributors, most of whom, like the editors, were members of the COST Action ‘Investigating Cultural Sustainability’, demonstrate in a cohesive way how the cultural values that people attach to place are enmeshed with issues of memory, identity and aspiration and how they therefore stand at the centre of sustainability discourse and practice. The cases are drawn from many parts of Europe, but notably from the Baltic, and central and south-eastern Europe, regions with distinctive recent histories and cultural approaches and heritage discourses that offer less well-known but transferable insights. They all illustrate the contribution that dealing with the inheritance of the past can make to a full cultural engagement with sustainable development. The book provides an introductory framework to guide readers, and a concluding section that draws on the case studies to emphasise their transferability and specificity, and to outline the potential contribution of the examples to future research, practice and policy in cultural sustainability. This is a unique offering for postgraduate students, researchers and professionals interested in heritage management, governance and community participation and cultural sustainability.

The City is an Ecosystem

2022-08-09 Architecture

Author : Deborah Mutnick
Release : 2022-08-09
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book The City is an Ecosystem written by Deborah Mutnick. This book was released on 2022-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality—which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live. Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainability; and the city as a sustainability classroom at all educational levels inside and outside formal classroom spaces. It argues that such efforts must be interdisciplinary and widespread to ensure an informed public and educated new generation are equipped to face an uncertain future, particularly relevant in the post-COVID-19 world. Gathering multiple interdisciplinary and community-engaged perspectives on these environmental crises, with contemporary and historical case study discussions, this timely volume cuts across the humanities and social and health sciences, and will be of interest to policymakers, urban ecologists, activists, built environment professionals, educators, and advanced students concerned with the future of our cities.

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