Abstract
European territories are fragile places in which landslides and flooding have occurred with a high frequency in recent decades, risking the safety of settlements and people and the integrity of the landscape. In many cases, recourse has been made to geotechnical and hydraulic interventions that have been rather non-uniform and partial and which, in prestigious areas, have made intervention after the fact problematic in recovering/mitigating what was done with extreme urgency. This paper reports on theoretical/applied research that implements methodological, multi-system experimentation and interdisciplinary skills for a project to recover the landscape within the Cinque Terre National Park (World Heritage Site, Italy). This recovery is capable of responding to the demand for protection, conservation, transformation and management of this cultural landscape par excellence. The methodological approach, the results of the research and the planning solutions span two scales—territorial and local—thereby highlighting the need for an approach to both micro- and macro-scale knowledge of the cultural landscape system to understand its structure and elements and to intervene with the proper planning sensitivity. Guidelines, masterplans and profiles of the types of intervention constitute the large- and small-scale results of the research, translating the strategies of the guidelines into planning actions.
Highlights
A conference was held in May 2017 entitled “La Cultura da salvare: beni culturali e rischi naturali
The structure of the Presidency of the Council’s “Italia Sicura” (Secure Italy) Mission against hydrogeological instability noted some impressive data for a country that holds the world record in cultural goods (51 World Heritage Sites of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—UNESCO—and more than 200,000 architectural and archaeological goods and monuments, 3400 museums and about 2000 archaeological areas and sites)
In the 2014 National Conference on hydrogeological risk, it emerged, for example, that 28% of the land used for agriculture was lost between the beginning of the 1970s and 2010. As well, it was shown how the abandonment of open spaces is a phenomenon that heavily and cumulatively affects flooding and landslide risks, the loss of biodiversity and the landscape. This is seen in the Region of Liguria, in which 60% of the territory is at risk of landslides, one of the highest percentages among Italian regions [6]
Summary
A conference was held in May 2017 entitled “La Cultura da salvare: beni culturali e rischi naturali. The first, in a preliminary, priority way, is the analysis of the landscape system, its characteristics and criticalities, which characterize the different scales It is, from this basic exploratory activity that interventions useful to improving the background conditions on the system level can be initiated, profiting from the new infrastructural defensive works. The landscape was read on the territorial scale, starting from the geomorphological and structural characteristics and followed by coverage and land use, in relation to each other After this initial evaluation, intended as an all-encompassing synthetic reading, it was deemed necessary to expand on the elements that compose the landscape itself, reading the reciprocal connections and relationships. Tetrehsnitsadrneednvectahyleetdoevwaotaleurntddioetnnhceoyfpttorhwoegatrreedrsrtsihtioevrepyraorbgeagrenasrdsdiovinnegmableaannndtdoounfsmetheaennttdyofpthtihecearlteylapagtiecradicluaaggltrruiiccruualllttuuterraarllraces, with tpeorrsasciebsl,e wreisthultpaonstsiebpleisoredseusltoanf thyedpirsoogdeeos loogf ichayldirnosgteaobliolgitiyc.alThinestiambipliotyr.taTnhcee oimf mpoaritnantacienionfg the terracme asitnrutacintuinregstnhoetteornrlayceresltartuecstutoretshneohtisotnolryyr/ellaantedsstcoapthee; iht iisstoarlsyo/lapnrdascctaicpael;fiotrispraolstoecptirnagctitchael sftoarbility of theplraontedc.ting the stability of the land
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