ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present, describe, and evaluate the merits of “resident employed photography” as a method for understanding place attachment as based on place meanings. The chapter uses as exemplars meanings and attachments related to environmental risk and restoration. Our chapter begins by engaging the importance of place meanings and their relationship to attachment, and then presents methodological underpinnings of place meanings and how they work to produce attachment. We then provide an example using meanings related to risk and restoration drawing on and summarizing three photo-elicitation studies in which the lead author has been involved. The chapter concludes with recommendations for those who would engage the approach.
