RECONECT Portofino Natural Park

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Created at: 29 Jan 2019

Description

Description of the Demonstrator

Portofino Park needs for interventions to reduce its vulnerability against meteo-hydrological events. NBS are implemented to conserve landscape, natural and cultural heritage and touristic value.

The Natural Regional Park of Portofino is located at around 3km from the city of Genova and includes the municipalities of Camogli, Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure. It has an extension of more than 1000ha. Context Environmental and Geographic context, climate conditions and problem description concerning hydro-meterological risks.

The Promontory of Portofino shows views and landscapes among the most famous in the world. Formed by giant conglomerate deposits overlying limestone banks, it has geomorphologic and microclimatic features that, in a limited territory, have created very different environments.

The increase of brief and intense rainfall events, as verified analysing rain gauges data over the last 100 years, tends to foresee a possible growth in flash flood events that, considering the steepness of the slopes and the accumulated debris, can determine favourable conditions for triggering increasingly disastrous debris and mud flows.

The analysis of geomorphological, geological, historical and socio-economic factors has clearly shown that the abandonment of the terraces led to an increase in geo-hydrological risk in an area already struggling to maintain a delicate balance between natural and historical aspects of its landscape.


Samenvatting (Dutch description)

RECONECT Portofino Natural Park

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Floris Boogaard

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