ABSTRACT

This chapter achieves a number of essential goals for the book. At the simplest level it summarises the previous chapters, offering a brief synopsis of each one. This chapter also identifies areas for future research for each case study utilised within the book. Each case study is necessarily a snapshot of the relationship between surfing and sustainability and as such offers significant scope for future areas of investigation and analysis. This chapter presents a reflexive assessment of the methodological approach taken, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of the particular ethnographic technique employed. Significantly this chapter re-engages with the theoretical framework of the book, synthesising risk society, metamorphosis and transitions with the empirical research. A model of transitions based on the multilevel perspective is presented that also identifies the connection between each of the case studies in the book. Overall assessment of the effectiveness and a critical assessment of the theoretical framework is also discussed.