Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8093405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerrie Foxwell-Norton (0000-0002-3313-3024, Griffith University, corresponding author), Libby Lester (0000-0003-1046-2412, University of Tasmania) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 568-581 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443717692738 |
| OpenAlex | W2588376280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 14 |
The Great Barrier Reef is the most recognizable of the Australian properties on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. At the time of its inscription in 1981, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature noted that ‘... if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen’. The listing followed the ‘Save the Reef’ campaign, which ran through the 1960s and 1970s and highlighted threats from rapid industrialization and a nation riding a resources boom. Nevertheless, in recent years, the Reef has teetered on being named a ‘World Heritage Site in Danger’, with similar economic conditions driving its deterioration. This article juxtaposes recent media activism to protect the Reef against the earlier campaign in order to compare and better understand how these campaigns engaged publics and policy makers by representing and communicating threats, and concludes by considering their capacity to influence long-term conservation policy
Boom · Business · Coral reef · Fishery · Geography · Great barrier reef · Listing (finance · Political science · Reef · Tourism · World heritage · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Oceanography
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Women of the Great Barrier Reef
Coal versus Coral
Reading over and under the waves
From Fake News to Echo-Chambers
Can Interdisciplinary Insights Encourage a Meaningful Response to the Climate Crisis? Narratives from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef
Articulating futures
Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef
The fear of losing national and institutional face
To dam or not to dam in an age of anthropocene
Envisioning tropical environments
The Great Barrier Reef
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Environmental communication and the public sphere
Environmental Conflict and the Media
Environment, Media and Communication
Powerful environmentalisms
Reporting demonstrations
Power games
Conspicuous redemption? Reflections on the promises and perils of the ‘Celebritization’ of climate change
Theorizing the enactment of mediatized environmental conflict
Rethinking media and disasters in a global age
Transnational Publics and Environmental Conflict in the Asian Century
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |