Of Droughts and Flooding Rains: Local and Institutional Perceptions of Environmental Change in an Australian Estuary
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2009-03
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Human Organization
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SOC APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
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Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
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Blair, S. L. (2009). Of Droughts and Flooding Rains: Local and Institutional Perceptions of Environmental Change in an Australian Estuary. HUMAN ORGANIZATION, 68 (1), pp.18-26. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.68.1.g115552424704k28.
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In 2003 when the commercial catch of Acanthopagrus butcheri (black bream) dropped to its lowest point since the 1970s, the commercial fishers of the Gippsland Lakes in Australia’s southeast maintained that it was too soon to tell if the stock was in trouble. The fishers did not consider the decline fundamentally different from other changes that had occurred over the last 100 years. It seemed to the representatives of the fisheries department, however, that fishers were denying that a change had occurred. The divergent interpretations were, in part, a result of divergent frameworks through which the passage of time was conceptualized. I show that the temporal frames of reference that commercial fishers use to judge the state of the environment are out of sync with institutional orientations that focus on smaller temporal intervals.
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