Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand : : An Ethnography of Coastal Protection / / Friederike Gesing.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Gesing, Friederike,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction and Outline --; Part I: Introducing Ethnography to Coastal Naturecultures --; 1. Working with Nature, Working with Water: A Globalized Imaginary --; 2. Natureculture Imaginaries --; 3. The Context of the Coast --; Part II: Beyond Hard Protection? The Waihi Beach Case --; 4. Historical Transect of a Coastal Protection Conflict --; 5. Possible Futures --; Part III: Material Practices of Working with Nature, or: Making Coastal Naturecultures --; 6. Restoring and Maintaining Nature: An Introduction to Coast Care --; 7. Working with Nature, Working with Communities --; 8. "It's a Frontline of Defence" - Dune Restoration as Soft Protection --; 9. Reconstructing Native Nature --; 10. Understanding Nature, Making Waves: Multipurpose Reefs --; Conclusion: Working with Nature, Making Coastal Naturecultures --; Bibliography --; List of Interviews --; Table of Figures
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839434468; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485332; 9783110701012; 9783110489842; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839434468?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Friederike Gesing.

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.