Surfing Between Blue Humanities and Blue Economies in Cantabria, Spain

Wuebben, Daniel; González-Trueba, Juan José

doi:10.5250/symploke.27.1-2.0065

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“…The importance of considering the cultural benefits of the environment to human wellbeing in environmental decision making is increasingly recognised in ecosystems research [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 53 ] and in social science research on the ‘blue economy’ [ 54 ]. For example, researchers exploring the blue economies in Cantabria, Spain argue, while ‘Shipping, fishing, off-shore mining, and energy resources all form crucial links in the value chains of the blue economy’, coastal tourism is one of the most visibly impactful areas of the blue economy and ‘within this sector, surfable waves generate health and happiness’ [ 10 ] (p. 65).…”

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“…This dominance needs expanding to different national contexts including those in the Southern Hemisphere. Third, expansive ecosystems research, and particularly on ‘blue economies’, has highlighted the economic benefits of coastal ecosystems goods and services that provide livelihoods, trade, and food [ 10 , 11 ]. However, this research has not adequately engaged with the different cultural benefits, and ‘dis-benefits’ [ 12 ] (p. 487), of these socio-ecological relationships [ 12 , 13 ].…”

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wheaton

Waiti

Olive

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Commentators are advocating for research to better understand relationships between healthy coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing. Doing so requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches across humanities, arts, social sciences, and science and technology disciplines. These approaches include culturally diverse knowledge systems, such as indigenous ones, that locate sustainable use of and relationships to marine ecosystems. This paper contributes to this agenda through a case-study of relationships between coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights interconnected cultural and wellbeing benefits of, and socio-ecological relationships between, these coastal ecosystems drawing on a case study of one ocean-based, ‘immersive’ leisure activity, surfing. Further, it examines how these relationships impact human physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems. The research illustrates that surfing creates strong bonds between practitioners and coastal places, linking the health of marine environments and people. We demonstrate the value of a transdisciplinary place-based approach that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences and engages with Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori). This argument for multicultural co-learning shows the value of Western and Māori vantage points for how we understand coastal blue spaces. Indigenous perspectives, we conclude, deepen appreciation, as well as equity considerations, of how we understand place, wellbeing, and long-term sustainable relationships with marine ecosystems.

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wheaton

Waiti

Olive

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“…Waves, especially popular for surfing and seaside activities, are an important part of marine hydrodiversity [1]. Waves play an active role in gas exchange between the hydrosphere and the atmosphere and in the transport of sediments, allowing, among other things, beach enrichments.…”

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A bright future for wave reserves?

Touron-Gardic

Failler

2022

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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“…Les vagues participent aussi au transport de sédiments et à de nombreux autres processus naturels. Plus généralement, elles sont un élément essentiel de l'hydrodiversité marine (Wuebben et González-Trueba, 2019) 1 . Du point de vue des activités humaines, elles génèrent de la valeur sociale, culturelle (exemple à la Figure 1), mais aussi économique (Lazarow et al, 2008 ;Coffman et al, 2009 ;Silva et Ferreira, 2014) 2 .…”

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