Abstract The aim of this paper is to understand dynamic processes of environmental stewardship in global urban cities, using an analytical lens of environmental placemaking. We demonstrate the importance of using the conceptual framework of environmental placemaking to understand newer forms of environmental consciousness, through a case study of the Indian megacity of Bengaluru – a heterogenous, multicultural urban landscape. Drawing on in- depth conversations with lake visitors and lake workers around three recently restored lakes in south-eastern Bengaluru – Kaikondrahalli, Kasavanahalli and Sowle Kere – we explore how these lakes are harnessed as ‘places’ by migrants to the city. Through representations of lakes as coupled ‘social’ and ‘environmental’ places, we explore the role of placemaking in shaping contemporary environmentalism and an interest in stewardship action for lake conservation. We argue that environmental placemaking leads to a fundamental transformation in human-nature conservation relationships in modern cities. We demonstrate how experiences of environmental placemaking are constituted by migrants into cities and are fundamental in making the city and local ecosystem a place of cohabitation, fostered by growing emotional attachment which stimulates a desire for environmental action.

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当地社区参与、环境营造和移民管理：印度班加罗尔湖泊保护案例研究

摘要 本文的目的是使用环境场所营造的分析视角来了解全球城市城市环境管理的动态过程。我们通过对印度大都市班加罗尔（一个异质的、多元文化的城市景观）的案例研究，证明了使用环境场所营造的概念框架来理解新形式的环境意识的重要性。通过与班加罗尔东南部最近修复的三个湖泊（Kaikondrahalli、Kasavanahalli 和 Sowle Kere）周围的湖泊游客和湖泊工人的深入对话，我们探索了这些湖泊如何被移民到城市的“地方”利用。通过将湖泊描述为耦合的“社会”和“环境”场所，我们探索场所营造在塑造当代环保主义方面的作用以及对湖泊保护管理行动的兴趣。我们认为，环境场所营造导致现代城市人与自然保护关系的根本转变。我们展示了环境场所营造的经验是如何由移民进入城市构成的，并且是使城市和当地生态系统成为共生之地的基础，通过不断增长的情感依恋来激发对环境行动的渴望。