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Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

Steinberg, P.E.

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J. Anderson
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K. Peters
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Abstract

This chapter provides a background to coral reef environments. It explores how they are a sign of global ocean health the proverbial canary in the coal mine' investigating the ways in which such ecosystems have been threatened, driving a growing conservation rhetoric to protect them. The chapter explores Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a key conservation strategy, tracing the challenges in attempting to manage these vulnerable areas due to competing science claims alongside socio-cultural and contextual differences in the geographies of reef systems. It then suggests an alternative way in which to assess the conflictual narratives underscoring conservation of reef systems, using Q methodology. The chapter presents results, finding trends of consensus and difference in how such ocean environments are imagined and understood, before noting how this links to the real-world management of the coral reef ecosystem. The symptoms of environmental deterioration are in the domain of the natural sciences.

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Steinberg, P. (2014). Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In J. Anderson, & K. Peters (Eds.), Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (23 - 37). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547619

Publication Date 2014
Deposit Date Jan 25, 2014
Publicly Available Date Oct 16, 2024
Publisher Routledge
Pages 23 - 37
Edition 1st ed.
Book Title Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean
Chapter Number 2
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547619
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1649884

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