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Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now
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Foxwell-Norton, K and Lester, L, Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now, Media Culture and Society, 39, (4) pp. 568-581. ISSN 0163-4437 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/0163443717692738
Abstract
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.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | environmental communication, environmental protest, Fight for the Reef, Great Barrier Reef, media, world heritage |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Communication and media studies |
Research Field: | Media studies |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | The media |
UTAS Author: | Lester, L (Professor Libby Lester) |
ID Code: | 114597 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP150103454) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2017-02-21 |
Last Modified: | 2018-11-14 |
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