La gestione del demanio marittimo nella evoluzione del paesaggio costiero The Management of the Coastal Public Property in the Development of the Coastal Landscape

The Sicilian coastal heritage is currently being affected by the environmental pressure and the intensive exploitation for bathing and tourist accommodation purposes. The contribution indicates the main dimensions of this phenomenon through information disaggregated by province, and provides some examples of appropriation of the physical support and the landscape features of the shores where bathing is permitted. In front of the effects of strong and even social polarization (very few people own much and a lot of people own little or nothing) due to the impoverishment of public goods and the consequent impairment of territorial democracy, we observe the impasse of the regulatory development on the state property concession issue, and the inertia of the local administrations concerning the formation of the Plans of Use of the coasts