Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228799 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 023.2020
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Safeguarding the future of Venice is a globally recognised challenge of urban sustainability. We propose a sustainable management model, alternative to the current strategy, that primarily focuses on the built heritage and which interprets the city together with its encircling lagoon as a matrix of interlinked natural, cultural and social capital. In particular, Venetian natural capital can be valued as a stock of wealth that produces a flow of income, its ecosystem services. Such values can be measured in economic, including monetary, terms. Using the examples of salt marsh and seagrass carbon sequestration, together with sediment retention, water purification and artisanal fishery and aquaculture, we show that it is economically viable to develop and reorientate the nearfuture trajectory of Venice and its lagoon with reference to a more sustainable pathway, where the natural capital is a driver of future economic development and, as such, is comparable with the value of currently dominant economic activities (port and mass tourism).
Subjects: 
Natural Capital
Ecosystem Services
Eecosystem Services Economic Valuation
Sustainability
Venice Lagoon
Alternative Management Strategies
JEL: 
Q56
Q57
R58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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