In Argentina, jaguars have been lost from most of their range, but efforts are being made to reintroduce jaguars in the Iberá wetlands, where they went extinct in historical times. Before the reintroduction of jaguars, we strengthened the protection status of the reserve, restored jaguars’ prey base, communicated to a broad audience the goals of the project, and are transforming the local economy from extraction-based to ecotourism-based. In January and April 2021, after ten years of preparation, we released two females with two four-month-old cubs each. An adult male is scheduled to be released in 2021. Communication campaigns, meetings with all stakeholders, including local communities and decision makers, and a strategy to convert the local economy into ecotourism, were key to building strong support for the return of the jaguar. Future actions will include releasing 8–20 individuals within the next three years, monitoring demographic and genetic parameters of the population, maintaining ongoing work with local communities leading to the establishment of a robust ecotourism economy, and close engagement with the public as jaguars disperse into new areas, where predation on livestock might occur.

Many countries are considering the deployment of renewable energy technologies in marine or coastal locations to mitigate climate change. Here, we consider ways that senses of place have implications for the deployment of offshore wind, tide and wave energy projects. We use in-depth interviews with auto-photography to explore multiple senses of places in an island context with the aim of gauging public views about the acceptability of potential deployment of wind, tidal and wave energy technologies. The study captured many instances where senses of place were invoked to construct arguments around the fit (or lack of) between place and technology, with place used flexibly to refer to specific marine or coastal locations, the island itself and its relation to other places. Auto-photography revealed the diversity of ways in which the land and the sea were meaningful to islanders – as a place for social relations, a place for fun and sport, a place for escape and a place for aesthetic beauty. By combining visual and verbal data to reveal multiple senses and scales of place, the study provides a rich foundation for understanding the acceptability of renewable energy projects.

In recent years, scholarship in environmental psychology has drawn on a qualitative narrative methodology in order to better understand the temporally dynamic development of different senses of place over the life course, in the form of distinct ‘life-place trajectories’. This research problematises a monistic and static conceptualisation of sense of place, pointing to the development of a plurality of senses of place that evolve temporally across the entire life course, and points to a need to conceptually expand our notions of the concept by recognising the interrelated role of ‘linked lives’ – the influence of interpersonal relations and wider socio-economic, cultural and political forces in the formation of different senses of place and residential mobility decisions over time. Furthermore, this chapter outlines how this life course approach has been applied to better understand the social acceptance of low-carbon energy technology developments.