Coastal communities, leisure and wellbeing: Advancing a trans-disciplinary agenda for understanding ocean-human relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorWheaton, Belindaen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorWaiti, Jordan Te Aramoanaen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorOlive, Rebeccaen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorKearns, Robinen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-19T09:33:42Z
dc.date.available2022-09-19T09:33:42Z
dc.date.issued2021en_NZ
dc.description.abstractCommentators 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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dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph18020450en_NZ
dc.identifier.eissn1660-4601en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/15190
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherMDPIen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthen_NZ
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dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subjectScience & Technologyen_NZ
dc.subjectLife Sciences & Biomedicineen_NZ
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciencesen_NZ
dc.subjectPublic, Environmental & Occupational Healthen_NZ
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences & Ecologyen_NZ
dc.subjectcoastal ecosystemsen_NZ
dc.subjectwellbeingen_NZ
dc.subjectblue spaceen_NZ
dc.subjectsurfingen_NZ
dc.subjectocean and human healthen_NZ
dc.subjectM&#257en_NZ
dc.subjecttauranga Maorien_NZ
dc.subjectAotearoa New Zealanden_NZ
dc.subjecttransdisciplinary researchen_NZ
dc.subjectcoastal recreationen_NZ
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledgesen_NZ
dc.subjectoceansen_NZ
dc.subjectlocalen_NZ
dc.titleCoastal communities, leisure and wellbeing: Advancing a trans-disciplinary agenda for understanding ocean-human relationships in Aotearoa New Zealanden_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.elements-id259151
pubs.issue2en_NZ
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pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_NZ
pubs.user.infoWheaton, Belinda (belinda.wheaton@waikato.ac.nz)
pubs.user.infoWaiti, Jordan (jordan.waiti@waikato.ac.nz)
pubs.volume18en_NZ
uow.identifier.article-noARTN 450
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