@book{2016:gesing:working_wi,
title = {Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand},
year = {2016},
note = {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.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {transcript},
address = {Bielefeld},
series = {Kultur und soziale Praxis},
volume = {0},
author = {Gesing, Friederike}
}