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Substantial research exists on attachments people have to places and the phenomena and objects they value. However, insights on how values vary between different locations and across demographics and how place attachment differs between rural and urban areas are more limited. These understandings are needed to design meaningful adaptation strategie...
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... the local area scale, location and length of residence were significant predictors of place dependence, and the same with the addition of age and home ownership were predictors of place identity. The urban higher socioeconomic communities had more pronounced place attachment than the lower urban socioeconomic communities across all dimensions except for place of residence place identity (Table 8). In terms of the differences in place attachment between rural and urban communities, Toodyay consistently scored higher than the urban lower socioeconomic communities, but not higher than the urban higher socioeconomic communities, which had a higher local area place identity score than the rural lower socioeconomic communities. ...