Land Use Change and Farmers’ Sense of Place in Typical Catchment of the Loess Hilly and Gully Region of China

Clarifying the relationship between land use and farmers’ sense of place on a micro scale is significant for enriching the perspective of research on human–environment relationships. Therefore, this paper analyzed land use change and the sense of place of farmers and further explored the interaction between them in the Yangjuangou catchment of Liqu Town in Baota District, Shaanxi Province from 1984 to 2020. The results indicated that: (1) the change in croplands was the most significant, i.e., its share in the total area decreased by 40%, and the decrease in sloping fields was the highest. The average relative altitude of croplands has decreased. The change in ecological land was also more significant, showing an increasing trend. Overall, the exploitation of land resources has declined; (2) the intensity of the sense of place of local farmers fluctuated downwards. The intensity of place attachment and place dependence decreased, and the intensity of the place identity increased; and (3) the decline in the intensity of the place attachment and place dependence promoted the reduction of sloping fields, the growth of ecological land and abandoned fields. By comparison, the increase in ecological land and check dam land promoted an increase in the intensity of place identity for local farmers. This paper suggested that rural areas in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region should strengthen innovation in land use patterns and focus on sustainability of farmers’ livelihoods, in order to promote the harmonious development of human-environmental relations.

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PEMAKNAAN PENGHUNI TERHADAP KAMPUNG BUSTAMAN DI KOTA SEMARANG

Jurnal Pengembangan Kota ◽

10.14710/jpk.7.1.57-67 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 57

Author(s):

R. Rafii Bisatya Rahmat ◽

Retno Widjajanti

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Place ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Place Identity ◽

Place Dependence

Kampung Bustaman merupakan salah satu kampung lama yang berada di pusat Kota Semarang. Keberadaan Kampung Bustaman tidak terlepas dari ancaman akibat dari perkembangan kota. Penting bagi masyarakat Kampung Bustaman untuk memaknai tempat tinggalnya. Pemaknaan masyarakat terhadap lingkungan tempat tinggalnya dikenal dengan istilah sense of place. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukenali sense of place masyarakat Kampung Bustaman di Kota Semarang. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik analisis deskriptif kuantitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data kuesioner, observasi lapangan, dan studi literatur. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sense of place masyarakat Kampung Bustaman memiliki karakter dan identitas tersendiri yang memberikan ciri khas lingkungan (place identity). Masyarakat juga memiliki keterikatan (place attachment) terhadap Kampung Bustaman karena adanya ikatan secara personal seperti ikatan biografi terhadap Kampung Bustaman dimana masyarakat menganggap Kampung Bustaman bukan sekedar tempat tinggal saja namun juga sebagai tempat yang memiliki arti baginya. Selain itu ketergantungan masyarakat (place dependence) yang tinggi terhadap Kampung Bustaman sebagai tempat yang mampu untuk memenuhi kehidupan sehari-hari.

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Multimodal and scale-sensitive assessment of sense of place in residential areas of Ankara, Turkey

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment ◽

10.1007/s10901-020-09798-6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Duygu Gokce ◽

Fei Chen

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Sense Of Place ◽

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Social Bonding ◽

Place Identity ◽

Data Sets ◽

Residential Areas ◽

Place Dependence

AbstractIn order to make the phenomenological concept sense of place (SoP) pragmatic in design and planning, this research investigates the SoP indicators concerning spatial scales of the physical environment. Seven indicators are extracted from the literature, namely ‘place identity’, ‘place dependence’, ‘nature bonding’, ‘social bonding’, ‘sense of belonging’, ‘familiarity’ and ‘social interaction’. In this paper, their relevance was discussed against ‘place attachment’ which is used interchangeably with SoP in the literature. ‘Place attachment’ and the seven indicators were scored through interviews with residents in general and at the the building, street and neighbourhood scales, in six housing developments selected from Ankara, Turkey. The residents rated their experiences regarding a set of statements for each indicator using the seven-point Likert scale. The data sets then were validated statistically. The correlations between each indicator and ‘place attachment’ in general and at the three scales were identified. The results showed that ‘place identity’ and ‘place dependence’ were the most relevant indicators to SoP, at the street and neighbourhood scales in particular. The second most relevant indicators were ‘sense of belonging’ and ‘social bonding’ at the building and street scales and ‘social interaction’ at the street scale. The research suggests that these five indicators could be employed to evaluate SoP at all scales or guide place-making at a particular spatial scale in planning and design.

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Hiking, Sense of Place, and Place Attachment in the Age of Globalization and Digitization: The Israeli Case

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12114548 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 4548

Author(s):

Noga Collins-Kreiner

Keyword(s):

Significant Role ◽

Sense Of Place ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Leisure Activities ◽

Digital Communications ◽

Place Identity ◽

Strong Sense ◽

Ethnographic Methods ◽

Place Dependence ◽

Land Of Israel

Based on the premise that hiking in Israel is strongly related to constructs of sense of place and place attachment, this study analyzes the motivations and experiences of hikers along the Israel National Trail. To this end, it employs diverse methods, including ethnographic methods such as participant observations and informal interviews, questionnaires, analysis of digital communications, diary analysis, and autoethnography. The findings indicate that the main motivations and experiences of Israeli hikers pertain to “getting to know” the Land of Israel “with their feet,” becoming connected to the land, and feeling a strong sense of Israeli identity. They also indicate that the current relationships among different concepts of “sense of place,” “place identity,” “place dependence,” and “place attachment” in the age of globalization and digitization are blurred and unclear, but that they nonetheless play a significant role in hiking in Israel and Israeli leisure activities in general.

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Sense of place amongst adolescents and adults in two rural Australian towns: The discriminating features of place attachment, sense of community and place dependence in relation to place identity

Journal of Environmental Psychology ◽

10.1016/s0272-4944(02)00079-8 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 273-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 251

Author(s):

Grace H Pretty ◽

Heather M Chipuer ◽

Paul Bramston

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Sense Of Place ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Place Identity ◽

Place Dependence ◽

Adolescents And Adults

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Kreowanie więzi terytorialnych na przykładzie Wspólnoty Gospodarstwa Społecznego (WGS)

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska sectio I – Philosophia-Sociologia ◽

10.17951/i.2018.43.1.159-173 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 159

Author(s):

Wioletta Knapik

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Place ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Place Identity ◽

Place Dependence

Więź terytorialna stanowi integralną część szerszej kategorii, jaką jest więź społeczna. W literaturze światowej istota więzi terytorialnej ujęta jest w takich pojęciach, jak: place attachment, place dependence, sense of place, place identity. W opracowaniu została przedstawiona idea więzi terytorialnych podkreślająca rolę zaufania w sieciach społecznych. Na tle omawianych zagadnień zaprezentowano autorską koncepcję Wspólnoty Gospodarstwa Społecznego (WGS). Opisując ją, autorka koncentruje się na aspekcie więzi terytorialnych. WGS jest projektem usytuowanym na obszarach wiejskich, opartym na zrównoważonym rozwoju w symbiozie z naturą, ukierunkowanym na takie wartości, jak: zdrowie, zdrowy styl życia, właściwe odżywianie, ale też historia i promocja regionu, kultura, rekreacja. WGS, w ramach sieci terytorialnych powiązań, skupia różnych aktorów społecznych ze wsi, miasta, peryferii, których łączy wspólna przestrzeń (terytorium). Zaufanie jest główną determinantą powstawania sieci terytorialnych powiązań − społecznych i ekonomicznych zależności między jednostkami, podmiotami gospodarczymi i grupami społecznymi.

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Current and Future Land Use Characters of a National Central City in Eco-Fragile Region—A Case Study in Xi’an City Based on FLUS Model

Land ◽

10.3390/land10030286 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 286

Author(s):

Dingrao Feng ◽

Wenkai Bao ◽

Meichen Fu ◽

Min Zhang ◽

Yiyu Sun

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Urban Development ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Pattern Change ◽

Land Use Dynamics ◽

The Future ◽

Xi’An City

Land use change plays a key role in terrestrial systems and drives the process of ecological pattern change. It is important to investigate the process of land use change, predict land use patterns, and reveal the characteristics of land use dynamics. In this study, we adopted the Markov model and future land use (FLUS) model to predict the future land use conditions in Xi’an city. Furthermore, we investigated the characteristics of land use change from a novel perspective, i.e., via establishment of a complex network model. This model captured the characteristics of the land use system during different periods. The results indicated that urban expansion and cropland loss played an important role in land use pattern change. The future gravity center of urban development moved along the opposite direction to that from 2000 to 2015 in Xi’an city. Although the rate of urban expansion declined in the future, urban expansion remained the primary driver of land use change. The primary urban development directions were east-southeast (ENE), north-northeast (NNE) and west-southwest (WSW) from 1990 to 2000, 2000 to 2015, and 2015 to 2030, respectively. In fact, cropland played a vital role in land use dynamics regarding all land use types, and the stability of the land use system decreased in the future. Our study provides future land use patterns and a novel perspective to better understand land use change.

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Estimating historical land use patterns in Amazonia for hydrological studies

Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciências Ambientais ◽

10.6008/spc2179-6858.2017.004.0016 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 189-197

Author(s):

Christiane Cavalcante Leite ◽

Marcos Heil Costa ◽

Ranieri Carlos Ferreira de Amorim

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Water Resources ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Census Data ◽

Land Use Patterns ◽

Use Patterns ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

Historical Land Use ◽

Past Land Use

The evaluation of the impacts of land-use change on the water resources has been, many times, limited by the knowledge of past land use conditions. Most publications on this field present only a vague description of the past land use, which is usually insufficient for more comprehensive studies. This study presents the first reconstruction of the historical land use patterns in Amazonia, that includes both croplands and pasturelands, for the period 1940-1995. During this period, Amazonia experienced the fastest rates of land use change in the world, growing 4-fold from 193,269 km2 in 1940 to 724,899 km2 in 1995. This reconstruction is based on a merging of satellite imagery and census data, and provides a 5'x5' yearly dataset of land use in three different categories (cropland, natural pastureland and planted pastureland) for Amazonia. This dataset will be an important step towards understanding the impacts of changes in land use on the water resources in Amazonia.

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