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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
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Gesing, Friederike,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Kultur und soziale Praxis
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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