Understanding coastal zone innovation: The ‘Waterdunen’ project as an ecology of practices
Derriks, T.; Peters, K.; van der Duim, R. (2022). Understanding coastal zone innovation: The ‘Waterdunen’ project as an ecology of practices. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management 39: 100493. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2022.100493
In: Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV: Amsterdam. ISSN 2213-0780, more
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Coastal zone development; Recreation; Practice theory; Ecology of practices |
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- Derriks, T.
- Peters, K.
- van der Duim, R.
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The coastal zone has many uses; people live, work and recreate in these areas, protect nature and create protective barriers between the sea and the people living near the coast. In this study, we examine the unfolding of the ‘Waterdunen’ project in the Dutch province of Zeeland as a form of coastal development. By using practice theory, and specifically the notion of ‘ecology of practices’, we unravel factors that hindered or stimulated coastal development related to different practices: coastal defence, salt-water nature development, recreation and tourism, dwelling and farming. Our analysis of newspaper articles, project publications and interviews showed that for Waterdunen to happen, tourism and recreation and salt-water nature development needed to be bundled whereas farming and dwelling practices had to be unbundled, sometimes even through (the treat of) expropriation. We gained detailed insights into the coastal development process by examining underlying cultural-discursive, material-economic and socio-political arrangements. The approach presented in this article shows a promising potential for also studying other developments related to coastal zone transformation. |
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