The emotional, social, and other bonds people have with specific locations, labeled “sense of place” (SoP), have been covered by diverse academic literatures, but conceptual and methodological contradictions and omissions leave their effects unclear. For example, the role of SoP in support of or resistance to siting of potentially hazardous facilities is uncertain due to mixed findings, disparate methods, and no consideration of mechanism(s) for SoP effects. We use a survey (n = 523) of Americans living near three proposed or operating land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) facilities to explore how multiple dimensions of SoP might affect local support for these developments, with perceived community change and perceived facility impacts as serial mediators. Direct effects of SoP were absent, but indirect effects of identity with place, and especially of social bonding with local family and friends, increased support via positive evaluations of past community change and/or perceived facility impacts; bonding with nature did not affect facility support, or even perception of the facility's environmental impacts. Examining effects of different dimensions of SoP, as well as the mediating effects of seeing community change generally as positive, may provide both the basis for explanatory mechanisms of SoP effects and for divergent findings; however, causal claims would depend on longitudinal or experimental methods.

人们与特定地点之间的情感、社会和其他联系被称为“地方感”（SoP），已被各种学术文献所涵盖，但概念和方法论的矛盾和遗漏使其影响尚不清楚。例如，由于结果不一、方法不同以及没有考虑 SoP 影响的机制，SoP 在支持或抵制潜在危险设施选址方面的作用是不确定的。我们使用调查（n = 523) 居住在三个拟议或运营的陆基循环水产养殖系统 (RAS) 设施附近的美国人，以探索 SoP 的多个维度如何影响当地对这些发展的支持，并将感知的社区变化和感知的设施影响作为连续调解者。没有 SoP 的直接影响，但对地方认同的间接影响，特别是与当地家人和朋友的社会联系，通过对过去社区变化和/或感知设施影响的积极评估增加了支持；与自然的结合不会影响设施的支持，甚至不会影响对设施环境影响的感知。检查 SoP 不同维度的影响，以及将社区变化普遍视为积极的中介效应，可以为 SoP 效应的解释机制和不同的发现提供基础；然而，因果主张将取决于纵向或实验方法。