ABSTRACT
Climate change is causing significant environmental impacts across the globe as evidenced by rising temperatures, melting sea-ice, rising sea levels, coastal flooding and an increase in extreme weather events. These are, in turn, causing significant changes to the fabric of the places where people live, work and take leisure, and consequently to the emotional attachments associated with such places. Yet our understanding of how place attachments may be affected by climatic changes, or how they may inform an understanding of human responses to such changes remains in its infancy. Accordingly, this chapter has two aims: first, to critically review the ways in which the dynamics of place attachment have been theorised and empirically researched in the literature; second, to discuss the application of this body of knowledge about place attachment to the subject of climate change.
