Political Ecology of Culture Clash: Amenity-Led Development, Vulnerability, and Risk in Coastal North Carolina
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Abstract
The current study contributes a political ecology of culture clash approach to the research on amenity-led development (ALD) in coastal areas. Coastal areas are characterized by high population growth, yet are prone to natural disasters, which are projected to increase as coasts erode, and seas rise and warm. Collaboration between newer and longer-term residents on hazard mitigation measures is increasingly important, but the ALD literature is replete with conflict, divisions, and increased vulnerability. The current study applies concepts from two lines of ALD scholarship, the culture clash literature and political economy approaches, to a case study of a traditional commercial fishing community undergoing ALD in North Carolina. Findings demonstrate that newer and longer-term residents share a concern for environmental harm, but misunderstandings and sense of place differences fuel conflict, while broader drivers of coastal development shape the landscape of vulnerability and risk. A significant contribution of this study is the exposition that ALD is not environmentally or politically neutral. There are significant consequences for environmental integrity, social vulnerability, and risk and hazard mitigation measures in who wins and who loses from culture clash politics, which belie the viability of cooperation based on common ground. However, making the terrain of politics visible reveals allies and resources for improving resilience and sustainability. Keywords: Culture clash; sense of place; politics of place; amenity-led development; enclosure; rural gentrification; rural restructuring; political ecology _______________________________________ Ecologie politique du choc des cultures: Developpement dirige par les agrements, vulnerabilite et risques lies au tourisme et risques dans les regions cotieres de la Caroline du Nord Resume La presente etude contribue a une approche de l'ecologie politique des conflits culturels dans la recherche sur le developpement mene par les agrements (DMA) dans les zones cotieres. Les zones cotieres sont caracterisees par une forte croissance demographique, mais sont sujettes a des catastrophes naturelles, qui devraient augmenter a mesure que les cotes s'erodent et que les mers montent et se rechauffent. La collaboration entre les nouveaux residents et les residents a plus long terme sur les mesures d'attenuation des risques est de plus en plus importante, mais la litterature sur le DMA regorge de conflits, de divisions et d'une vulnerabilite accrue. La presente etude applique les concepts de deux lignes de bourses de DMA, la litterature sur les conflits culturels et les approches d'economie politique, a une etude de cas d'une communaute de peche commerciale traditionnelle subissant un DMA en Caroline du Nord. Les resultats demontrent que les nouveaux ainsi que les plus anciens residents partagent une preoccupation pour les dommages environnementaux, mais les malentendus et le sentiment d'appartenance aux lieux alimentent les conflits, tandis que des facteurs plus larges de developpement cotier faconnent le paysage de la vulnerabilite et des risques. Une contribution importante de cette etude est l'exposition que le DMA n'est pas neutre sur le plan environnemental ou politique. Il y a des consequences importantes pour l'integrite environnementale, la vulnerabilite sociale et les mesures d'attenuation des risques et des dangers pour qui gagne et qui perd de la politique des conflits culturels, qui nient la viabilite d'une cooperation fondee sur un terrain d'entente. Cependant, rendre visible le terrain de la politique revele des allies et des ressources pour ameliorer la resilience et la durabilite. Mots-cles : choc des cultures ; sentiment d’appartenance ; politique de la dimension locale; developpement mene par les agrements; enceinte; gentrification rurale; restructuration rurale; ecologie politique
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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