Gesing, FriederikeFriederikeGesing2020-03-252020-03-252016978-3-8376-3446-4https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/3275Working 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.356deinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCoastEthnographyPracticeNatureNew ZealandSoft ProtectionSociotechnical ImaginariesScience and Technology StudiesEnvironmental AnthropologyDune RestorationMaterialityCollaborationCoastal ProtectionOceaniaCoastal ErosionCoastal StudiesCultureCultural GeographyHuman Ecology300Buch, Monographieurn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105627-15