Sustainable Venice: Suggestions for the Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Venice and its Lagoon: A Problem of Local Sustainable Development

   • Ignazio Musu

   Pages 1-25

3. The Biodiversity in the Venice Lagoon as the Basis of a Sustainability Project

   • Mauro Bon, Danilo Mainardi, Luca Mizzan, Patrizia Torricelli

   Pages 27-60

4. On the Natural Equilibrium of the Venice Lagoon (Will Venice Survive?)

   • Andrea Rinaldo

   Pages 61-94

5. Urban Sustainability and Territorial Structure

   • Carlo Magnani, Traudy Pelzel

   Pages 95-120

6. Material Production in the Municipality of Venice

   • Maurizio Rispoli, Francesco di Cesare, Andrea Stocchetti

   Pages 121-157

7. Towards Sustainable Tourism in Venice

   • Jan van der Borg, Antonio Paolo Russo

   Pages 159-193

8. Immaterial Production in Venice: Towards a Post-Fordist Economy

   • Enzo Rullani, Stefano Micelli

   Pages 195-226

9. Governing the Sustainable Development of Venice: Elements of the Institutional Planning Procedure

   • Bruno Dente, Cinzia Griggio, Andrea Mariotto, Carolina Pacchi

   Pages 227-261

10. Back Matter

    Pages 263-271

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It is universally recognised that Venice and its lagoon are of such value that they constitute an international public good that must be preserved for humanity as a whole. But such an ambitious task requires a diversified, sustainable set of economic activities, mostly focused on the production of services and non-material goods. This complex issue is analyzed using different approaches, with a discussion of the case of Venice as an example of some of the most relevant problems concerning the relation between the environment and development in the contemporary world: the trade-off between preserving an ecosystem and considering it as an economic resource; the evolution of different urban growth scenarios and the preservation of a physical habitat; the role of immaterial production in urban economic development; the nature of tourism as a sustainable activity, considered from both from the environmental and cultural angles; the institutional aspect of governing a process of sustainable urban development.
Readership: A unique resource for environmental and urban managers, policy analysts, students of sustainable development, and anyone else interested in the social and economic implications of preserving one of the most loved and celebrated cities in the world.

• Economic Development
• Sustainable Development
• biodiversity
• development
• ecosystem
• growth
• production

• University of Venice, Italy

  Ignazio Musu

• Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy

  Ignazio Musu

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