Private property rights versus scenic views: a battle over place attachments
Date
2001-10
Authors
Cross, Jennifer E., author
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In the West, some of the most volatile political debates revolve around land-use issues. Much sociological research has focused on the relationship between length of residence and attitudes towards the environment, land-use and growth controls, but very little has investigated the relationship between place attachments and attitudes. Through depth interviews with 90 residents of Nevada County, California, I investigate the relationship between place attachments and attitudes toward local land-use issues. I develop a typology that illustrates the influence of attachments to place on attitudes towards land-use issues. This typology is illustrated through the discussion of local land-use issues.
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Presented at the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in the Western U.S. Regional Conference in Alta, Wyoming, October 2001.
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place attachment
community attachment
place meanings
threat to place attachment
land use controversy
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