Restoring the lagoon, they posit, is the way to build a Venice for the future that “interprets the city together with its encircling lagoon as a matrix of interlinked natural, cultural and social capital. In March 2008 the online advocacy group, whose stated project is to protect the Venetian way of life, installed a digital census counter in. The movement is especially relevant in Venice, since a 50cm rise in sea levels could see the city vanish beneath the waves.

In the past two years, since the city started using the barriers, researchers saw a decline in marsh sediment.Īs Davide Tognin, one of the researchers, told EuroNews, “They mitigate coastal flooding by buffering waves and storm surges, enhance water quality, filter nutrients and pollutants, take up atmospheric carbon at rates much larger than terrestrial ecosystems and constitute peculiar habitats for endangered species.”Īdvocating for solutions that acknowledge the interlinked nature of the lagoon itself and the city of Venice is a local group, We Are Here Venice. Strip The City uses stunning CGI animation to strip the sinking city of Venice naked of its marble, bricks, bridges and canals - layer. The ecosystem relies on the water flow to move sand and silt out to the marshes. The barrier system is already causing problems for the lagoon and its surrounding wetlands and mudflats, according to a recent study by University of Padova researchers.

Venice the sinking city