Using Senses of Place to Help Communities Navigate Place Disruption and Uncertainty

Lynne C. Manzo is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA). She received her PhD in Environmental Psychology and specializes in people-place relationships, particularly place attachments, place meaning, and socio-spatial justice. She is the coeditor of Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (Routledge, 2021, 2nd edition with Patrick Devine-Wright), and coeditor of Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges (2021, Cambridge University Press). She has published in such journals as the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Urban Studies, and Journal of Planning Literature, among others.

Dr. Daniel R. Williams is a research social scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. His current research draws on place-based inquiry and practice to inform the adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems and the adaptive capacities of communities and institutions that make them more resilient in the face of such change. He has published extensively on place-based conservation and adaptive governance of landscape change in the context of wildfire and climate adaptation.

Andrés Di Masso, PhD, is a professor at the University of Barcelona (Spain), where he teaches applied social psychology, political psychology, qualitative methods and epistemology. He is the coordinator of the Interaction and Social Change Research Group (GRICS-UB). His research and publications focus on the micropolitics of place and the ideological construction of people-place relations, across socially sensitive topics such as public space and the right to the city, urban transformations, racism, migration, gender, nationalism and mobilities.

Christopher Raymond is a Professor of Sustainability Science at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include the conceptualization and assessment of senses of place and the multiple values of nature; weaving scientific, local, and Indigenous knowledge for sustainability; nature-based solutions co-benefit assessment; and the governance of sustainability transformations. He is lead editor of the recent book Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges and coordinating lead author of a recent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (UN) report on the multiple values of nature.

Natalie Gulsrud is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning. She received her PhD on the governance of urban green space branding. She studies the governance of urban green infrastructure to advance sustainable and just pathways to climate resilience. She has published in Landscape and Urban Planning, Environmental Research, and Urban Forestry and Urban Greening and is the coauthor of the book Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City (Routledge, 2019).