Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand : An Ethnography of Coastal Protection Paperback / softback
by Friederike Gesing
Part of the Culture and Social Practice series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:Transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:15/06/2016
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- ISBN:9783837634464
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:Transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:15/06/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783837634464
