Venice, Italy

Venice, Italy

Miami, Florida has also been influenced by anthropogenic factors in a similar way. As a result of burning fossil fuels, there's been an increase in the melting of ice sheets and glaciers which has increased sea levels. Thus, Miami experiences frequent flooding.

THE VENICE LAGOON

• The largest coastal transitional ecosystem in the Mediterranean
• The morphology of the Lagoon has been heavily influenced by
• Venice itself has one of the largest populations in Europe standing at 100,000 by the end of the 13th century
• There's been much urban and industrial development
• There's been dredging of deep canals for oil tankers
• Keel propellor grooves
• Hard structure scour holes

• 50% salt marsh surface loss
• Accelerated erosion process
• Expansion of subtidal flats in the central basin
• Sediment loss of 110Mm^3
• The global dredging market has increased
• Accelerated sea level rise
• Frequent flooding risks

Solutions

• MOSE
• Uses mobile buoyancy gates at the lagoon's three main inlets to block high tides

• Ground raising proposal
• Pietro Teatini proposed pumping water into underground aquifers to lift Venice by about 30 cm
• Ring dikes
• To isolate the city from the lagoon
• Closed lagoon systems
• Impletmented permanant dams coastal dams