Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand : An Ethnography of Coastal Protection
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Culture and Social Practice
ISBN-10
3837634469
ISBN-13
9783837634464
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Imprint
Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 2016
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
680 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.50 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographyHuman geographyConservation of the environment
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Tackling an issue of crucial importance for human-nature relationships at the coast, this rich ethnography follows the emergence of ›soft‹ coastal protection in practice.
Working with nature - and not against it - is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly popular approach of "soft" protection to the Aotearoa New Zealand coast. Friederike Gesing analyses a political controversy over hard and soft protection measures, and introduces a growing community of practice involved in projects of working with nature. Dune restoration volunteers, coastal management experts, surfer-scientists, and Maori conservationists are engaged in projects ranging from do-it-yourself erosion control, to the reconstruction of native nature, and soft engineering "in concert with natural processes". With soft protection, Gesing argues, we can witness a new sociotechnical imaginary in the making.
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