Land Management Contestation in a Rural Coastal Zone
A Western Australian Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.40.095Keywords:
transiciones rurales multifuncionales, patrimonios disonantes, asentamientos informales de casas de veraneo, planificación costeraAbstract
Conflicts over land management on the coastal plain of Dandaragan, ca. 100 kms north of Perth in Western Australia, revolve around protection of a threatened natural environment, Indigenous land and cultural rights and the presence of informal holiday shack settlements,all within a broader context of growing development pressures. This article traces the area’s distinctive settlement history to illuminate the background to these conflicts and uses the conceptual lenses of the multifunctional rural transition and dissonant heritages to explain the differing values of the competing stakeholder groups
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