Turismo in Italia: numeri e potenziale di sviluppo [Tourism in Italy: Figures and Potential for Development]

Land use analysis and coastal structures: Adriatic Coast as a case study

“…In Italy, the municipalities overlooking the sea cover an area of about 42 600 km 2 (14 % of national soil), and people living there are over 16 500 000, about a third of the Italian population and corresponding to a population density of 400 inhab/km 2 twice the national value (200 inhab/km 2 ). The high anthropic pressure makes this system extremely vulnerable with significant losses of essential ecosystem services [6] and problems in the management of sandy beaches [13] where a large part of the touristic economies are concentrated [20]. This fact is even more true for the Adriatic coast, characterized mainly by long low, and sandy beaches alternating with rocky headlands only in some areas (e.g.…”