Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand: An ethnography of coastal protection
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
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. It 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, the author argues, we can witness a new sociotechnical imaginary in the making.
Subjects
Coast
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Ethnography
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Practice
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Nature
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New Zealand
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Soft Protection
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Sociotechnical Imaginaries
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Science and Technology Studies
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Environmental Anthropology
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Dune Restoration
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Materiality
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Collaboration
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Coastal Protection
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Oceania
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Coastal Erosion
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Coastal Studies
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Culture
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Cultural Geography
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Human Ecology
Publisher
Transcript
Institution
Type
book
Page number
356
Secondary publication
No
Language
German
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