An increasing focus on place based planning and adaptation processes brings to the fore the importance of understanding the situated experience of social and environmental change. Populations do not respond uniformly to environmental and social change, and given that consensus is needed to successfully achieve inclusive adaptation it is important to understand how and why people are more sensitive to certain changes and risks over others. Using a sense of place lens, we investigate how an individual’s relationship with their property and their town shapes their sensitivity to a range of risks. To investigate this, we conducted a survey in towns in South Africa, UK and France (n = 707) to examine the relationship between multiple dimensions of sense of place with place-based risks. We find that relationship with place matters differently for perception of social, environmental and overdevelopment risk. In particular, we find that feeling safe in place correlates with reduced perceptions of social risks but increases the likelihood of perceiving environmental risk. The role of place in risk perception is stronger at the property scale than the town scale, and it is only at the property scale that place meaning is related to risk perception. Our findings contribute to theory on the subjective experience of place-based risks and has implications for how social and environmental change can be communicated and managed.

对基于场所的规划和适应过程的日益关注，使得了解社会和环境变化的实际经验变得尤为重要。人口对环境和社会变化的反应并不统一，并且需要达成共识才能成功实现包容性适应，因此重要的是要了解人们如何以及为什么人们对某些变化和其他风险更加敏感。使用位置感，我们研究了个人与其财产和城镇的关系如何塑造他们对一系列风险的敏感性。为了对此进行调查，我们在南非，英国和法国（n = 707）的城镇中进行了一项调查，以检验场所感的多个维度与基于场所的风险之间的关系。我们发现，与地方的关系对于感知社会，环境和过度开发风险具有不同的重要性。尤其是，我们发现就地感到安全与减少对社会风险的感知有关，但增加了感知环境风险的可能性。在财产规模上，场所在风险感知中的作用要比在城镇规模上强，并且只有在财产规模上，场所意义才与风险感知有关。我们的发现为基于位置的风险的主观经验的理论提供了理论依据，并且对如何传达和管理社会与环境变化产生了影响。我们发现，就地感到安全与减少对社会风险的感知有关，但增加了感知环境风险的可能性。在财产规模上，场所在风险感知中的作用要比在城镇规模上强，并且只有在财产规模上，场所意义才与风险感知有关。我们的发现为基于位置的风险的主观经验的理论提供了理论依据，并且对如何传达和管理社会与环境变化产生了影响。我们发现，就地感到安全与减少对社会风险的感知有关，但增加了感知环境风险的可能性。在财产规模上，场所在风险感知中的作用要比在城镇规模上强，并且只有在财产规模上，场所意义才与风险感知有关。我们的发现为基于位置的风险的主观经验的理论提供了理论依据，并且对如何传达和管理社会与环境变化产生了影响。