Governance Responses to Rapid Growth in Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Coastal Australia

Gurran, Nicole; Blakely, Edward J.; Squires, Caroline

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“…assessments of the coastal camping landscape. In so doing, we sought to connect cultural geography's long-standing concern for humanistic assessments of place (Cosgrove 1978;Anderson and Gale 1992) with recent scholarship that documents and seeks to account for the effects of property development and demographic change on coastal landscapes that are symbolically charged, as well as physically sensitive (Gurran et al 2007;Collins 2009). Specific themes identified included: normative ideas around appropriate forms of coastal camping; notions of belonging, attachment and sense of place associated with campgrounds; and concerns and fears regarding the loss of camping opportunities.…”

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‘Pulling up the Tent Pegs?’ The Significance and Changing Status of Coastal Campgrounds in New Zealand

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Kearns

2010

Tourism Geographies

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This article considers the importance of beach-front campgrounds in NewZealand, both as physical sites offering affordable public access to coastal environments, and as sites of social and psychological meaning. It traces the evolution of coastal campgrounds from 'freedom camping', to more formal (if initially basic) facilities, to the development of relatively up-market holiday parks offering a wide range of services and accommodation options. While camping styles and options changed significantly over the twentieth century, coastal camping itself became valorized as a 'kiwi tradition'. This mainstay of domestic tourism is widely perceived as an ideal way to use and access the coast. However, as part of a coastal property boom, many campgrounds are at risk of closure, and conversion to residential uses. Drawing on multiple sources of data, we chart the ongoing social and emotional significance of coastal campgrounds in New Zealand. While the immediate effect of closure is the displacement of a discrete number of current campers, the longer-term consequences include lost opportunities for future generations, the destruction of a sense of community, and a loss of place attachment. Résumé : On retire les fixations des tentes ? La signification et le changement de statut des campings en bord de mer de Nouvelle ZélandeDans cet article, l'auteur considère l'importance des campings qui existent le long des plages en Nouvelle Zélande comme sites physiques qui offrent un accès publicà la merà prix raisonnable et comme sites qui ont une signification sociale et psychologique. Cet article retrace l'évolution de ces campings au cours du vingtième siècle qui ont débuté avec un format simple pourêtre ensuite mieuxéquipés et finalement devenir des parcs qui offrent un largeéventail de services et de types de logements. Si les formes et les choix de campings ont changé de façon significative, le camping en bord de mer aété valorisé comme 'tradition kiwi'. Cette forme majeure de tourisme domestique est perçue comme une façon idéale d'utiliser et d'avoir accèsà la mer. Cependant, l'explosion de la valeur des propriétés en bord de mer menace de fermer de nombreux campings pour les convertir en lots résidentiels. Nous décrivons la signification sociale etémotionnelle des campings côtiers de la Nouvelle Zélande grâceà de nombreuses sources de données. L'effet immédiat de la fermeture de campings est bien sûr le déplacement de quelques campeurs mais les conséquencesà plus long terme comprennent des occasions manquées, l'éradication d'un sens communautaire et la perte d'un lien d'attache. Mots-clés: Camping, délassement balnéaire, tourisme domestique, immobilier, Nouvelle Zélande Zusammenfassung: 'Die Heringe herausziehen?' Die Bedeutung und der sich wandelnde Status von Campingplätzen an den Küsten Neuseelands Dieser Aufsatz befasst sich mit der Bedeutung von Campingplätzen an neuseeländischen Stränden, und zwar sowohl als physische Standorte, die einen erschwinglichenöffentlichen Zugang zu Küstenumgebungen bieten als auch als sozial...

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‘Pulling up the Tent Pegs?’ The Significance and Changing Status of Coastal Campgrounds in New Zealand

Collins

Kearns

2010

Tourism Geographies

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“…36.000 km (Norman 2009) and its population and economic activity is primarily based in the coastal area (Berwick 2007;Hofmeester et al 2012;Kenchington, Stocker, and Wood 2012). Australia's coastline is adapted to the human populations, by the construction of ports and city waterfronts (Dovey 2005;Gurran, Blakely, and Squires 2007). Resource extraction is one of Australia's prime economic activities, therefore ports are built and extended to allow these valuable minerals to be extracted and shipped abroad (Kenchington, Stocker, and Wood 2012;Middle and Middle 2010;Kay, Blewett, and Huston 2012).…”

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“…The primary legislation on environmental issues at the national level is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Due to the allocation of responsibilities, the institutions on state level are of greater importance in the actual coastal management and construction of coastal infrastructural projects (Gleeson 2001;Gurran et al 2007;Kroen and Goodman 2012;Norman 2009;Wescott 2009). …”

Section: Australian Coastal and Environmental Managementmentioning

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Building with Nature in Marine Infrastructure: Toward an Innovative Project Arrangement in the Melbourne Channel Deepening Project

2014

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Globally, there is an increasing pressure on coastal and marine ecosystems. The development of marine infrastructure is causing additional ecological impacts on these systems. To reduce ecological impacts innovative approaches of marine infrastructure development are being developed. These approaches, such as Building with Nature, aim to integrate ecological and social dynamics in the creation of coastal and marine infrastructure. This integration has implications for the development and management of these projects. To understand opportunities for Building with Nature approaches, this article analyzes the development of the Melbourne Channel Deepening project in Australia that developed from a conventional, state-led project toward a Building with Nature arrangement. This article shows that a Building with Nature project arrangement differs not just substantially in its ecological focus and primacy from a conventional project arrangement, but also in its leading discourse, its actor coalition, its power and resources applied, and the rules of the game through which the project is designed and implemented. We conclude that developing a Building with Nature project requires a specific arrangement that allows for an early involvement of both ecological and social dynamics.

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“…These contestations occur in the context of processes of rural restructuring and shifting forms of land use governance characterized by an enhanced role for local actors (Gurran et al, 2007;Stanley et al, 2005;Warner, 2003;Woods, 1998). Such shifts have arisen from multiple interrelated processes: the perceived ineffectiveness of centralized or corporatist models of environmental governance (Baker and Kusel, 2003;Krishnaswamy, 2005); the decline of productivism as a regulating force within the postfordist transition (Lowe et al, 1993;Marsden et al, 1993); and as a specific manifestation of the overall triumph of neoliberal ideologies and governance frameworks in the U.S. and elsewhere (Lockie et al, 2006;McCarthy, 2005;Stanley et al, 2005).…”

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The politics of marginality in Wallowa County, Oregon: Contesting the production of landscapes of consumption

Abrams

Gosnell

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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Governance Responses to Rapid Growth in Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Coastal Australia

Cited by 35 publications

References 17 publications

‘Pulling up the Tent Pegs?’ The Significance and Changing Status of Coastal Campgrounds in New Zealand

‘Pulling up the Tent Pegs?’ The Significance and Changing Status of Coastal Campgrounds in New Zealand

Building with Nature in Marine Infrastructure: Toward an Innovative Project Arrangement in the Melbourne Channel Deepening Project

The politics of marginality in Wallowa County, Oregon: Contesting the production of landscapes of consumption

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