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Sharing Stories of Place to Foster Social Learning

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Sharing stories about places reveals the emotions of stakeholders and facilitates dialogue that promotes social learning beneficial to land-use planning. There are several entrenched forces in society that prevent planning from treating environments as places. “Learning circles” are one strategy to overcome these forces and lay a foundational dialogue for place-based conservation. The authors applied this approach in three cases and evaluated its effectiveness in: (1) valuing stakeholders’ emotional expression; (2) allowing participants to feel safe in sharing their place stories; and (3) recognizing that sharing place meanings can help create new public values for a landscape.

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  1. Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois, 104 Huff Hall, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA

    William P. Stewart

  2. Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Troy D. Glover

  3. Department of Recreation Administration, Eastern Illinois University, 1110 McAfee, Charleston, IL, 61920, USA

    James R. Barkley

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    William P. Stewart

  2. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Centre Avenue 2150A, Fort Collins, 80526-1891, Colorado, USA

    Daniel R. Williams

  3. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Glacier Highway 11305, Juneau, 99801-8626, Alaska, USA

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Stewart, W.P., Glover, T.D., Barkley, J.R. (2013). Sharing Stories of Place to Foster Social Learning. In: Stewart, W., Williams, D., Kruger, L. (eds) Place-Based Conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5802-5_11

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