Land and sea joint - The educational project Terramare

Abstract

Today, the global financial and economical crisis has made evident the inner relationship between environmental degradation and social needs. Throughout the Mediterranean Sea the consequences of the new shift in the geopolitical order and the cultural conflicts confronting is a first result of disadvantages and environmental crisis with a continuum growth of environmental disorder and difficulties on manage territories. In this contest, the foundation “Fondazione con il Sud” promotes project for Sustainable Development and Environmental Education to empower citizen to live sustainably in an environmentally conscious manner and to promote cultural integration. The "Terramare" project is proposed as a model of integrated protection and management of coastal protected areas, based on the close interconnection between the terrestrial nature reserve and the marine protected area. Contextualized in the Pelagie islands, the project plans to tackle some critical issues of the two protected areas and the territory by proposing to the local community an active role in the protection and management of natural capital and identifying new ways of enjoying and living protected areas based on sustainable tourism and the strengthening of the local identity.