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Published on 24-03-2022


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The Venice lagoon in the context of climate change, mitigation and adaptation measures

Research programme CORILA – Venice Water Authority

  • Program or granting body: Venice Water Authority
  • Duration: 2008-2010
  • Project budget: 2 million Euros, with a co-financing of over 50%
  • Contact person in CORILA: dabala@corila.it
  • Keywords:Architecture, Cultural heritage, Economy and social aspects, Environmental processes, Data management, Venice Lagoon

The research program “The Venice lagoon in the context of climate change, mitigation and adaptation measures and the evolution of land uses” was aimed at the challenges that must be faced in order to safeguard Venice and its lagoon in one scenario in which the tide regulation works at the inlets are completed and operational. In fact, it seemed right on the one hand to consolidate the knowledge acquired, also by means of environmental monitoring of the interventions, on the other hand to deepen those elements that can provide a more updated cognitive framework, in the light of new scientific awareness and changed global scenarios. Future management interventions and the use of the tools created will be based on this updated knowledge.

The results of these researches will act as essential support in the first place to the activities of the Water Magistrate (today Provveditorato alle OO.PP. for the Triveneto), as responsible for the planning, design, experimentation and implementation of the protection interventions of the Lagoon of its competence. . The results may also be useful for all other local, national and international institutions operating in similar marine and coastal contexts. This Research Program intended to pay the utmost attention to the future scenarios of the Venice lagoon, also including the study of some effects of the tide regulation works in the context of the climate changes in progress and of the predicted anthropogenic pressures.

Research lines
Line 1

Analysis of local-scale components of the relative sea level rise in light of the global future development scenarios considered by the IPCC. Investigation of the Holocene subsoil.
Scientific director Dr. Luigi Tosi, ISMAR-CNR.Line 2
Analysis of local-scale components of the relative sea level rise in light of the global future development scenarios considered by the IPCC. Mitigation by anthropogenic lifting.
Scientific director Dr. Piero Teatini, DMMMSA-UNIPD.

Line 3
The solid transport from the lagoon to the sea in different scenarios of sea levels and use of the means of regulation of the tides.
Scientific director Dr. Luca Zaggia, ISMAR-CNR.

Line 4
Conservation and evolution of lagoon habitats: effects of climate change and adaptation measures.
Scientific director Dr. Fabio Pranovi, DSA-UNIVE.

Line 5
Bioavailability and biotoxicity of lagoon contaminants and regulatory evolution.
Scientific director Dr. Warren Cairns, IDPA-CNR.

Line 6
The lagoon landscape and the planning of anthropogenic uses in the context of changes and adaptation and mitigation measures. Planning and recovery of the areas facing the inlets involved in the tide regulation interventions.
Scientific managers proff. Domenico Patassini and Laura Zampieri, IUAV.

Line 7
The lagoon landscape and the planning of anthropogenic uses in the context of changes and adaptation and mitigation measures. Redevelopment and redesign of some mainland areas overlooking the Venice lagoon.
Scientific director prof. Stefano Rocchetto, IUAV.

Line 8
The lagoon landscape and the planning of anthropogenic uses in the context of changes and adaptation and mitigation measures. Feasibility study on the recovery and destination of Porto Marghera from an economic-urban point of view, also considering the environmental problems in depth.
Scientific coordinator Prof. Margherita Turvani, IUAV

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