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Environmental Meaning and Ecosystem Management

Perspectives from Environmental Psychology and Human Geography

Bibliographic Data

ID12164635
AuthorsD Williams (0000-0002-9774-2910, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Daniel R Williams, Michael E Patterson (Clemson University)
Year1996
Volume9
Issue5
Pages507-521
Publication date1996-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociety & Natural Resources (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0894-1920 • E-ISSN: 1521-0723
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08941929609380990
OpenAlexW2108018655
LanguageEN
Citations received48
References cited29

The contribution of human dimensions research to the ecological paradigm emerging in natural resource management involves the development of contextually rich, and spatially and historically specific, understandings of places. As an eclectic and integrative field of inquiry, environmental psychology offers a growing body of research that promotes a view of the person as a social agent who seeks out and creates meaning in the environment. As developed in environmental psychology, research from the adaptive, goal‐directed, and sociocultural paradigms is reviewed to illustrate alternative approaches to studying environmental meaning. These paradigms, taken together, provide complementary conceptual approaches for assessment and mapping of the diverse and often competing environmental meanings that various constituencies attach to natural resources. From human geography, the concept of place offers a framework for integrating environmental meanings into ecosystem management. Place constitutes a concrete focal point where natural forces, social relations, and human meanings overlap and can be integrated in theory and practice

Ecosystem · Ecosystem Management · Environmental ethics · Environmental Psychology · Environmental resource management · Environmental studies · Epistemology · Geography · Human ecology · Meaning (existential · Natural (archaeology · Natural resource · Natural resource management · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology

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Unique citing works48
Citations per year1,66
Citation span1997 - 2026 (30)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 45
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