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Friederike Gesing

Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand


An Ethnography of Coastal Protection
2016. 356 S. Klebebindung, 18 SW-Abbildungen. 225 mm
Verlag/Jahr: TRANSCRIPT 2016
ISBN: 3-8376-3446-9 (3837634469)
Neue ISBN: 978-3-8376-3446-4 (9783837634464)

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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 (Dr.) is a senior researcher at artec Sustainability Research Center, University of Bremen. She works on sociomaterial practices of coastal protection and transnational climate policy.