El frágil equilibrio de los paisajes costeros. El litoral del Agro Pontino

In Italy, the processes of metropolization and indiscriminate consumption of soils have had negative effects on more than half of the national surface and, in particular, on the most usable areas in terms of urbanization, the coastal areas. Sensitive territories, places of transition between the terrestrial and marine ecosystems, in a fragile balance between biodiversity and vulnerability, between anthropic pressure and ecological and environmental resources, in which it is necessary to integrate defense interventions and environmental protection criteria, valuing, at the same time, social and cultural permanences through new planning strategies and tools based on the concept of sustainability and resilience. The southern coast of Lazio, between Rome and Circeo, affected for centuries by numerous recovery attempts finalized to transform the wetlands into lands suitable for agriculture and to be inhabited, currently represents a complex territorial system that stretches across the wetlands, four coastal lakes to the dune and the sea. In this area, the regeneration programs and projects currently underway represent an example of how the compromised relationships between the natural and anthropic environment, urban settlements, agricultural activities and the marine ecosystem can be reconstructed.