Frames of influence : Embracing culture-centric perspectives on public and institutional participation in coastal zone management
Frames of influence : Embracing culture-centric perspectives on public and institutional participation in coastal zone management
From a researcher's standpoint, it was important to begin to understand what the purpose of participation really was and how the groups being consulted in each procedure could be defined. Being that research was located in the coastal zone it was also important to gain an understanding of the physical coastal system and potential conflicts between this system and human requirements of it. The researcher's philosophy and practical methodologies had to reflect the system's dichotomy and hence a plural geographical methodology was formed. In essence, the strands of human and physical geography had to be conjoined in such a way as to understand the differing and sometimes opposing processes without compromising the research outcome by an inflexible or unsuitable research technique.
It is not for the first time that a geographer has endeavoured to merge human and physical geographies, but it is to my knowledge, the first time in which a geographer has explicitly applied this task to the coastal management process. To date, the majority of literature on coastal management has concentrated on the physical environment and its implications for management. This research offered the opportunity to become culture-centric, looking outward towards human and natural environmental conflict in the coastal zone whilst simultaneously looking inward towards philosophical conflict within the discipline of geography. With such a standpoint it was hoped that problems underlying the participatory process and the institutional framework it worked within could be exposed and hence improved to allow the continued policy goal of sustainable coastal management to become a reality.
University of Southampton
Treby, Emma Jane
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1999
Treby, Emma Jane
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Treby, Emma Jane
(1999)
Frames of influence : Embracing culture-centric perspectives on public and institutional participation in coastal zone management.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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From a researcher's standpoint, it was important to begin to understand what the purpose of participation really was and how the groups being consulted in each procedure could be defined. Being that research was located in the coastal zone it was also important to gain an understanding of the physical coastal system and potential conflicts between this system and human requirements of it. The researcher's philosophy and practical methodologies had to reflect the system's dichotomy and hence a plural geographical methodology was formed. In essence, the strands of human and physical geography had to be conjoined in such a way as to understand the differing and sometimes opposing processes without compromising the research outcome by an inflexible or unsuitable research technique.
It is not for the first time that a geographer has endeavoured to merge human and physical geographies, but it is to my knowledge, the first time in which a geographer has explicitly applied this task to the coastal management process. To date, the majority of literature on coastal management has concentrated on the physical environment and its implications for management. This research offered the opportunity to become culture-centric, looking outward towards human and natural environmental conflict in the coastal zone whilst simultaneously looking inward towards philosophical conflict within the discipline of geography. With such a standpoint it was hoped that problems underlying the participatory process and the institutional framework it worked within could be exposed and hence improved to allow the continued policy goal of sustainable coastal management to become a reality.
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Published date: 1999
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