By Jane da Mosto and Caroline Fletcher

Following a three-year research project at Cambridge University, this book is the distillation of the current state of scientific knowledge about the nature and causes of the threat to Venice, and about proposed solutions.

One hundred years ago, St Mark's Square flooded less than 10 times a year; since 2000, this has happened over 60 times a year. Venice is also at risk of being disastrously flooded if there is another strong storm surge in the Adriatic Sea, as in 1966. And then there is climate change, which poses one of the biggest threats to the survival of Venice. In the next 100 years, global average sea level could rise by at least 8cm and as much as 88cm. Many of the natural dynamics of lagoon processes that have shaped and maintained the city for centuries and made the Venice lagoon one of the Mediterranean's most precious wetlands are threatened by widespread degradation. This book is the distillation of the current state of scientific knowledge about the nature and causes of the threat to Venice, and about proposed solutions. It is the fruit of a three-year research project based at Cambridge University, and a conference held there in 2003 that was attended by over 130 scientists from around the world. CORILA was the project's Venice partner.  

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