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dc.contributor.authorFoxwell-Norton, Kerrie
dc.contributor.authorLester, Libby
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-18T05:17:27Z
dc.date.available2017-07-18T05:17:27Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0163-4437
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0163443717692738
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/342070
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom568
dc.relation.ispartofpageto581
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalMedia, Culture and Society
dc.relation.ispartofvolume39
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchJournalism and Professional Writing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200299
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2001
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2002
dc.titleSaving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFoxwell-Norton, Kerrie M.


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