The coastal cultural heritage facing coastal management

Capacity building for sustainability: towards community development in coastal Scotland

“…The role that culture can play in improved ICZM performance has been widely documented. Yet whilst most authors have concentrated on the contribution ICZM can make in preserving local culture (Callegari and Vallega, 2002;Vallega, 2003), there has been limited discussion of the role of local culture as a facilitator for development. Day (1998) in contrast, suggests that the erosion of societal structures as a product of modernisation and globalisation have generated 'a cultural turn in social theory' (p. 89).…”

Marine electrical resistivity tomography for shipwreck detection in very shallow water: a case study from Agropoli (Salerno, southern Italy)

“…Buried man-made features and objects, such as walls, metals, etc., usually produce geophysical anomalies which are recordable at the surface. Furthermore, the increasing care to a sustainable management of the coastal zone, makes the recognition of targets in very shallow water an essential objective for regions that have a particularly important archaeological past (Vallega, 2003;Fletcher et al, 2007). It is worth stressing that the emplacement of coastal engineering structures (e.g.…”

Defining the extent of coastal zone for ecosystem-based management

“…Depending on particular tasks there are definitions based on physical, arbitrary, ecological, economic or administrative and jurisdictional criteria [3]. Most of these set the seaward boundary of coastal zone to a fixed distance from the coastline or baseline.…”