Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage - Artikel merken
Tackling an issue of crucial importance for human-nature relationships at the coast, this rich ethnography follows the emergence of 'soft' coastal protection in practice.
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.
Friederike Gesing ist Assistenzprofessorin für Humangeographie mit Schwerpunkt Posthuman Studies an der Universität Graz.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.12.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Kultur und soziale Praxis |
| Verlagsort | Bielefeld |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
| Schlagworte | coast • Coastal Protection • Collaboration • Cultural geography • Culture • Dune Restoration • Environment • Environmental Sociology • Ethnographie • ethnography • Ethnology • human ecology • Küstenschutz • Materiality • Nature • Neuseeland; Natur • New Zealand • Oceania • Practice • Sociotechnical Imaginaries |
| ISBN-13 | 9783837634464 / 9783837634464 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
