What is it about?

This paper aims to study some negative environmental feedbacks and the increase of geomorphlogical hazards in the coastal area, roughly urbanized, of Bivona country (Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Southern Italy).

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Why is it important?

The analysis shows how the wrong and chaotic urban development, without any appropriate town planning scheme, has produced conditions of environmental decay and a decrease of prices in market estate, commmonly used as a marker of Human Quality Life.

Perspectives

The sustainable development of coastal landscape must be realized through goods and services production respecting the environmental limits of coastal areas in order to avoid negative territorial feedbacks able to decrease Human Quality Life.

Dr Nicola Cantasano
National Research Council

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This page is a summary of: The quality of life conditioning with reference to the local environmental management: A pattern in Bivona country (Calabria, Southern Italy), Ocean & Coastal Management, December 2014, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.10.014.
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