Urban Geomorphology in Coastal Environment: Man-Made Morphological Changes in a Seaside Tourist Resort (Rapallo, Eastern Liguria, Italy)

Brandolini Pierluigi (), Faccini Francesco, Paliaga Guido and Piana Pietro
Additional contact information
Brandolini Pierluigi: Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy
Faccini Francesco: Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy
Paliaga Guido: Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection of Turin of the Italian National Research Council, Italy
Piana Pietro: School of Geography, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2017, vol. 36, issue 3, 97-110

Abstract: This research focuses on the reconstruction of the morphological modifications of the coastal floodplain of Rapallo (Eastern Liguria, NW Italy) due to human intervention since the eighteenth century. By the second half of the nineteenth century Rapallo became a popular tourist destination: as a consequence, the urban development of the floodplain started and became very intense after Second World War, strongly modifying former landforms.The study was carried out using multi-temporal cartographic and photographic comparison, the analysis of geo-thematic cartography and documentation from the Basin Master Plan and the town plan of Rapallo, the interpretation of cores from regional database and field data from direct urban surveys. Man-made landforms were mapped and classified using the new geomorphological legend which is in progress in the framework of the Working Groups on “Cartography” and “Urban Geomorphology” of the Italian Association of Physical Geography and Geomorphology (AIGEO).The main significant morphological changes were stream diversions and channeling, excavations and filling, quarry activities, embankments along the shoreline and overurbanization. Human interventions, in addition to local geomorphological and climate features, increased flood hazard and risk, which historically affected the city of Rapallo.

Keywords: Urban Geomorphology; Man-made landforms; Tourism impact; Flood risk; Rapallo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2017-0027 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:quageo:v:36:y:2017:i:3:p:97-110:n:6

DOI: 10.1515/quageo-2017-0027

Access Statistics for this article

Quaestiones Geographicae is currently edited by Andrzej Kostrzewski

More articles in Quaestiones Geographicae from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().