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A new tool to promote sustainability of coastal zones. The case of Sele plain, southern Italy

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To support the implementation of integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) plans, a quantitative methodology was assessed, fitting for both the National and Regional scale. According to the indicators proposed by the Deduce Consortium (Indicators guideline: to adopt and indicator-based approach to evaluate coastal sustainable development. Department of the Environment and Housing, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, 2007), we propose a procedure to define monothematic and synthetic indexes useful in explaining the territory status. To achieve this goal, we used a methodology implemented in a geographic information systems (GIS) framework which had allowed us to draw these indexes into maps, making them valuable tools to inform the stakeholders about the weaknesses and strengths of the coastal areas, to involve them in the ICZM implementation process according to a bottom-up approach. We present here an application of this methodology to the inland sectors of the Sele coastal plain (Tyrrhenian coast, Southern Italy), which is affected by natural hazards and territorial fragmentation. Moreover, this plain is characterized also by large untouched areas to be preserved. We illustrate for the above area, the importance of GIS to manage and integrate large amounts of numerical data, produced by several projects, realized in the past decade in the framework of the environmental management. For this purpose, monothematic and synthetic index maps have been drawn to transfer the appropriate knowledge of the territory status to stakeholders.

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We are grateful to Prof. M. Tramontana and the anonymous review for their constructive comments for improving the manuscript. Moreover, many thanks are given to Prof. B. D’Argenio for stimulating discussions on the topic of the manuscript, to Patricia Sclafani and Rita Barra for final revision of the English text.

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Giordano, L., Alberico, I., Ferraro, L. et al. A new tool to promote sustainability of coastal zones. The case of Sele plain, southern Italy. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 24, 113–126 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-013-0236-2

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