Re-casting experience and risk along rocky coasts

A relational analysis using qualitative GIS

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4634089
AutoresPeter Kamstra (0000-0003-3934-1403, School of Geography The University of Melbourne Parkville Vic. Australia, autor correspondente), Brian Cook (0000-0002-5618-1395, School of Geography The University of Melbourne Parkville Vic. Australia), T Edensor (0000-0002-4715-6024, School of Science and the Environment Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester UK), David M Kennedy (0000-0002-4878-7717, School of Geography The University of Melbourne Parkville Vic. Australia)
Ano2019
Volume185
Fascículo1
Páginas111-124
Data de publicação2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12277
OpenAlexW2893252203
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas33

This study invites readers to experience risk on Australia's hazardous rocky coasts with the rock fishing community. In the paper, we offer an understanding of risk that is relational, a process that emerges within human-environment interactions in a dynamic coastal space that is constantly changing. Exploring the in situ and ongoing sensory attunement of the fishers, we contend, expands upon the quantitative understandings that tend to be deployed by risk managers, offering an innovative approach to conceptualising risk. In identifying how fishers perceive and experience a rocky coastal location in Sydney, Australia, we track rock fishers' movements using global positioning systems (GPS), undertake participant observation, and draw on video footage, semi-structured interviews and participatory sketch maps. In doing so, fishers' perceptions of socio-environmental stimuli were spatially represented in a GIS, with sketch mapping being the proxy and/or the window into perception-environment relations that produce risk. We contend that the findings show that experienced fishers are more capable of anticipating and reacting to hazardous situations "safely" because they are more attuned to how changing coastal conditions affect risk. This study draws attention to the spatial and temporal phenomena that drive risk perceptions as well as the implications for future perception-oriented research that adopt a relational understanding

Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Hazardous waste · Perception · Risk perception · Sketch · Coastal and Marine Management · Computer Science · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Environmental Science · Psychology