There are positive numbers those in the last report by Legambiente “Environment Italy 2016″ and published by Edizioni Ambiente. Indeed the recorded data continue to grow in the negative: Italian shores are anything but safe , even in the face of climate change now underway. A case of illegal building in Sicily. According to the report in fact the 51 percent of the Italian coast has already been transformed by the cement. 6477 km of coastline ranging from Ventimiglia to Trieste, including major islands, occupied irreversibly from industries, ports, infrastructure , urban centers. Then there is the uncontrolled spread of small villas on the coast, which alone account for 25 percent of the entire Italian coastline. Sicily, Calabria and Puglia hold the record for density, while the Sardinia to be the most virtuous, the least urbanized of Italy. “The Italian Environment Report presents a snapshot of these impacts with truly disturbing data and studies demonstrating that it is possible to reverse this situation through a change of,” he explains policies Edward Zanchini , vice president of Legambiente and curator along with Sebastiano Venneri and Giorgio Zampetti volume in a press release. “Just the challenge that climate change poses to coastal areas of the Mediterranean , with significant impacts on ecosystems, coastline and urban areas, it should lead to a new and more incisive vision of the interventions. Necessary to strengthen the resilience of the territories to climate change and push towards the upgrading and enhancement of widespread coastal heritage “. A storm that has eroded much of the beach. The urban sprawl, that prohibited since 1988 by Galasso law providing to protect the areas within 300 meters from the coast, has instead grown at a dizzying rate: 8 km the year covered by concrete, 25 meters a day. But that’s not the biggest problem: coastal erosion and bad purification of water are two of the causes that put more at risk the health of the seas and coastlines. Even today, despite two convictions of the European Commission, a quarter of all Italian citizens do not have access to adequate wastewater treatment service. And then there is the third already eroding beaches , as explained by the contribution of Enzo Pranzini. And, while intensified extreme events, it seems increasingly difficult to counter this. Are inadequate interventions put in place to date: often artificial reefs in fact, do not allow water exchange and sedimentation, increasing the problem rather than solve it. “For the future of the coastal areas we have the opportunity to inspire and choose a model that has already proven successful. That of protected areas and territories that have chosen to focus on a qualitative development and are seeing positive results in terms of tourism growth. As the system of 32 national protected areas, which are a virtuous example of coastal areas management to be proud of, “says Rossella Muroni, national president of Legambiente. “To give a boost to this perspective, however, it is necessary that there are clear rules, without forgetting that our country must also move the bulldozers to demolish thousands of illegal houses that disfigure our shores and start upgrading operations in areas that will, in this way, to have a future tourist off from decay. ”
There are positive numbers those in the last report by Legambiente “Environment Italy 2016″ and published by Edizioni Ambiente. Indeed the recorded data continue to grow in the negative: Italian shores are anything but safe , even in the face of climate change now underway.
A case of illegal building in Sicily.
According to the report in fact the 51 percent of the Italian coast has already been transformed by the cement. 6477 km of coastline ranging from Ventimiglia to Trieste, including major islands, occupied irreversibly from industries, ports, infrastructure , urban centers. Then there is the uncontrolled spread of small villas on the coast, which alone account for 25 percent of the entire Italian coastline. Sicily, Calabria and Puglia hold the record for density, while the Sardinia to be the most virtuous, the least urbanized of Italy. “The Italian Environment Report presents a snapshot of these impacts with truly disturbing data and studies demonstrating that it is possible to reverse this situation through a change of,” he explains policies Edward Zanchini , vice president of Legambiente and curator along with Sebastiano Venneri and Giorgio Zampetti volume in a press release. “Just the challenge that climate change poses to coastal areas of the Mediterranean , with significant impacts on ecosystems, coastline and urban areas, it should lead to a new and more incisive vision of the interventions. Necessary to strengthen the resilience of the territories to climate change and push towards the upgrading and enhancement of widespread coastal heritage “.
A storm that has eroded much of the beach.
The urban sprawl, that prohibited since 1988 by Galasso law providing to protect the areas within 300 meters from the coast, has instead grown at a dizzying rate: 8 km the year covered by concrete, 25 meters a day. But that’s not the biggest problem: coastal erosion and bad purification of water are two of the causes that put more at risk the health of the seas and coastlines. Even today, despite two convictions of the European Commission, a quarter of all Italian citizens do not have access to adequate wastewater treatment service. And then there is the third already eroding beaches , as explained by the contribution of Enzo Pranzini. And, while intensified extreme events, it seems increasingly difficult to counter this. Are inadequate interventions put in place to date: often artificial reefs in fact, do not allow water exchange and sedimentation, increasing the problem rather than solve it. “For the future of the coastal areas we have the opportunity to inspire and choose a model that has already proven successful. That of protected areas and territories that have chosen to focus on a qualitative development and are seeing positive results in terms of tourism growth. As the system of 32 national protected areas, which are a virtuous example of coastal areas management to be proud of, “says Rossella Muroni, national president of Legambiente. “To give a boost to this perspective, however, it is necessary that there are clear rules, without forgetting that our country must also move the bulldozers to demolish thousands of illegal houses that disfigure our shores and start upgrading operations in areas that will, in this way, to have a future tourist off from decay. ”
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