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    Re-framing values for a World Heritage future: What type of icon will K'gari-Fraser Island become?

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    Wardell-Johnson, Grant
    Schoeman, D.
    Schlacher, T.
    Wardell-Johnson, Angela
    Weston, M.
    Shimizu, Y.
    Conroy, G.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wardell-Johnson, G. and Schoeman, D. and Schlacher, T. and Wardell-Johnson, A. and Weston, M. and Shimizu, Y. and Conroy, G. 2015. Re-framing values for a World Heritage future: What type of icon will K'gari-Fraser Island become? Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 22 (2): pp. 124-148.
    Source Title
    Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
    DOI
    10.1080/14486563.2014.985267
    ISSN
    1448-6563
    School
    Department of Environment and Agriculture
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32991
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Kgari-Fraser Island, the world's largest barrier sand island, is at the crossroads of World Heritage status, due to destructive environmental use in concert with climate change. Will Kgari-Fraser Island exemplify innovative, adaptive management or become just another degraded recreational facility? We synthesize the likely impact of human pressures and predicted consequences on the values of this island. World-renown natural beauty and ongoing biological and geological processes in coastal, wetland, heathland and rainforest environments, all contribute to its World Heritage status. The impact of hundreds of thousands of annual visitors is increasing on the island's biodiversity, cultural connections, ecological functions and environmental values. Maintaining World Heritage values will necessitate the re-framing of values to integrate socioeconomic factors in management and reduce extractive forms of tourism. Environmentally sound, systematic conservation planning that achieves social equity is urgently needed to rectify historical mistakes and update current management practices. Characterizing and sustaining biological refugia will be important to retain biodiversity in areas that are less visited. The development of a coherent approach to interpretation concerning history, access and values is required to encourage a more sympathetic use of this World Heritage environment. Alternatively, ongoing attrition of the islands values by increased levels of destructive use is inevitable.

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