"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."
By:
Friederike Gesing Imprint: Transcript Verlag Country of Publication: Germany Dimensions:
Height: 23mm,
Width: 15mm,
Spine: 2mm
Weight: 680g ISBN:9783837634464 ISBN 10: 3837634469 Series:Culture and Social Practice Pages: 356 Publication Date:18 October 2016 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Friederike Gesing is a cultural anthropologist of science, technology and nature, and co-founder of the Bremen NatureCultures Lab. She works at artec Sustainability Research Center, University of Bremen, Germany.