This paper discusses access to private land as it occurs in the balance between the needs and viewpoints of landowners with the needs and viewpoints of eco-tourism groups, most specifically cave explorers. The theories of landscapes, stewardship and psychological ownership enable us to discuss the natural landscape as not just an object but also as […]
Filed under: anthro of property on April 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
As discussed earlier, psychological ownership can exist in the absence of legal ownership and occurs in an often lengthy and iterative process involving investing the self and making personal sacrifices on behalf of a cave. When an individual’s sense of self is closely linked to the place, a desire to maintain, protect, or enhance that […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
In caving, stewardship is an ethic that embodies cooperative planning and management of environmental resources with cave conservancies, communities, individual cavers and caving groups to actively engage in the prevention of cave damage and the promotion of conservation.
Overall, environmental stewardship research tends to focus on it as a relationship between people and objects, and less […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Commercial cave tours are mostly walk through, dramatically lit and impressive rooms meant to inform visitors of the value in caves. Although caving is not a widely commercial venture it does have a small percentage of “wild cave tours”. These type of tours cost upwards of US$50 a person and are geared towards physically fit […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Meanings are not inherent in the nature of objects. The symbols and meanings that comprise landscapes reflect what people in cultural groups define to be proper and improper relationships among themselves and between themselves and the physical environment. For non-cavers in the United States, symbols and meanings related to caves may arise from Plato’s allegory, […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the past year I have interviewed and interacted with people who explore caves in the northeastern United States. This grounded theory research originally began with a broad question and a sub-question, respectively: How do cavers think and feel about caving, access to caves and the practice of caving by others? How does the physical […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Psychological ownership can be defined as that state where an individual feels as though the object of ownership is ‘theirs’ and has a sense of responsibility not necessarily bounded by legal right or static place (Pierce, Kostova & Dirks, 2001; 2003). Three features help elaborate this definition. First, the sense of ownership manifests itself in […]
Filed under: anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Stewardship can be defined as an individual’s responsibility to exercise care over possessions entrusted to him or her. Environmental stewardship implies caring for, ensuring well-being, maintaining vigilance, accepting personal responsibility, and understanding the importance of environmental accountability (Beavis, 1994). It also implies responsible management of natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
Although tourism can be defined in different ways it is essentially the activity of a tourist, “a temporarily leisured person who voluntarily visits a place away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change” (Smith 1989, 2). Graburn (1989) characterized tourism as a kind of ritual process that reflects society’s deeply held values about […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Landscapes are symbolic environments created when persons place meaning in nature and the environment and give the environment definition and form according to particular perspectives, values and beliefs. (Berger & Luckman 1967). Cultural groups transform the natural environment into landscapes through the use of different symbols that bestow different meanings on the same physical objects. […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
