Intervention Methodologies to Enhance Sicilian Rural Coastline Landscape Within Climate Change

Nowadays with climatic change, global warming and desertification needing urgent attention and concrete responses, rational use of the planet’s resources and safeguarding the global ecosystem are essential presuppositions for sustainable development together with economic prosperity and balanced social quality. It is well known that these tensions are most exacerbated in strongly anthropic areas like those of the agro-Sicilian coastline. In most of these areas, extensive overbuilding due to urban, industrial and tourism sprawl, and intensive agriculture have above all impoverished the coastline, depleted typical Mediterranean vegetation, eroded the soil, and therefore modified the environment. This work proposes to analyse parts of the Sicilian agricultural landscape, in Ragusa territory, to acquire data on the factors determining the evolution of this degradation and develop intervention methodologies within climate change.