The Role of a Sense of Self-in-Place and Risk Amplification in Promoting the Conservation of Wildlife

Abstract

Conservation professionals often struggle in their efforts to protect species at risk, typically failing to account for the role played by social interaction and individual place-attachments that can amplify the perceived personal impacts of conservation policies. This article reviews various ways in which a sense of self-in-place can be applied in the context of landscape-scale planning to conserve species through the perspective of an amplification of risk framework. The perspective is extended to a suite of principles for incorporating a sense of self-in-place and risk amplification mechanisms into wildlife conservation contexts.