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Title: |
Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand |
| Sub-title: |
An Ethnography of Coastal Protection |
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| By (author): |
Friederike Gesing |
| ISBN10-13: |
3837634469 : 9783837634464 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
225x148mm |
| Pages: |
356 |
| Weight: |
.558 Kg. |
| Published: |
transcript - June 2016 |
| List Price: |
44.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography : Human geography : Social impact of environmental issues |
| Working with nature â and not against it â 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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