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The Outstanding Terraced Landscape of the Cinque Terre Coastal Slopes (Eastern Liguria)

2017; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-26194-2_20

2213-2104

Pierluigi Brandolini,

3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

Due to a century-old agricultural practice, the coastal landscape of Cinque Terre (eastern LiguriaLiguria , northwestern Italy) has been almost completely modified by slope terracing via reworking of millions of cubic metres of debris cover and the construction of thousands of kilometres of dry stone walls. Given their geomorphological-environmental value, as well as scenic and historical significance, the Cinque TerreCinque Terre represent one of the most outstanding examples of human integration with the natural landscape within the Mediterranean region, and have been recognised since 1997 as a World HeritageWorld Heritage Site by UNESCO and included since 1999 within a National ParkNational Park . Following the abandonment of farming over the last half a century, the terraced slopesTerraced slope have been progressively affected by crumbling of the dry stone walls and mass movements. As dramatically evidenced by the effects of the major rainstorm of October 2011, the Cinque Terre are currently at very high geomorphological riskRisk and thus mitigation measures and conservation policies are urgently needed.