Place attachment and flood preparedness

Sense of Place” and “Place Attachment

Today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies In literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. It is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. This paper defines ...

Flood risk perception and place attachment: a case study in Poland

In 1997, Poland faced the greatest flood in the 20th century. Hundreds of thousands lost their property, and the damage was estimated at 2.5 billion euro. Despite measures undertaken after the disaster, a new flood occurred in 2001. This is only one example showing that absolute protection against flood cannot be offered. Risk perception is defined as a subjective judgement on severity and prob...

sense of place” and “place attachment

today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies in literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. it is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. this paper defines ...

Public Perception of Flood Risk and Community-based Disaster Preparedness

An investigation of the relationship between sense of place and place attachment among dormitory students

Today, there are many concepts such as a sense of place and attachment to place presented in architecture and urban literature in the field of environmental studies. Meanwhile, relationship between the two is not much explained. This study defines the concept of sense of place and attachment to place and the factors influencing them followed by providing a four- dimensional model derived from s...