Successful bioregional practices resist easy transfer across places.
Evidence
One of the difficulties of writing and reading about bioregionalism is that successful bioregional practices are so specific to the places where they occur; their relevance for different places is not always obvious. Thayer, a Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at University of California at Davis, has risen to this challenge beautifully. Throughout his engaging book, Thayer interweaves his personal experience of making the Sacramento Valley his life place and working for its sustainability with a discussion of major bioregional concepts and principles that can be applied in various places. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review, 7
Categorization
- XREF: This is the exact place-specificity-versus-transferability tension driving the course’s book review; connects directly to how Sobel/Thayer methods generalize beyond Osprey Wilds field sites. — connects to: Knowing a place deeply makes people care for and protect it. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review: LifePlace: Bioregional…, 9
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- Karla Armbruster — Book Review LifePlace Bioregional Thought and Practice (Robert L. Thayer) and Place-Based Education Connecting Classrooms and Communities (David Sobel) (similarity 0.82)
- Knowing a place deeply makes people care for and protect it. (similarity 0.79)