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Beyond the High Water Mark: Access and the Enaction of Blue Space Benefits on Hawaiʻi Island Shorelines
Brooks, Jill F
Brooks, Jill F
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Shorelines on Hawaiʻi Island are blue spaces, or areas with naturally occuring bodies of water with health-enabling potential. Hawaiʻi Island shorelines are physically and discursively shaped through ongoing, ever-changing unique natural and cultural processes. Benefits garnered from shoreline blue spaces vary from person-to-person. This thesis uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the socio-economic, legal, cultural and spatial dynamics that control access to different types of blue-space benefits derived by inidivduals from shorelines on Hawaiʻi Island. All shorelines on Hawaiʻi Island are designated as public property and coastal property owners must comply accordingly. However, day-to-day implementation of shoreline access laws is complicated by ongoing colonialism. I conducted qualitative analysis of data from 10 interviews with long-term Hawaiʻi Island community members and carried out spatial analysis of how shoreline access right-of-way locations interact with demographic distribution on the island. I found that the implementation of public shoreline access laws does not ensure equitable shoreline access by failing to acknowledge either the variability of blue-space benefits derived from shorelines or the underlying processes that control ablilities to access those benefits.
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2019-01-01
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Geography