Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand : An Ethnography of Coastal Protection PDF
by Friederike Gesing
Part of the Kultur und soziale Praxis series
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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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- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:27/05/2016
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:27/05/2016
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- ISBN:9783839434468
