The Science of Saving Venice. This item is unavailable.The Science of Saving Venice

One hundred years ago, St Mark's Square flooded less than ten times a year; since 2000, this has happened over sixty times a year. Venice is also at risk of being disastrously flooded if there is another strong storm surge in the Adriatic sea as in 1966. And then there is climate change, which poses one of the biggest threats to the survival of Venice. In the next one hundred years global average sea level could rise by at least 8cm and as much as 88cm. Many of the natural dynamics of lagoon processes that have shaped and maintainted the city for centuries and made the Venice lagoon one the Mediterranean's most precious wetlands are threatened by widespread degradation.

This book of the distallation of the current state of scientific knowledge about the nature and causes of the threat to Venice and about proposed solutions.

It is the fruit of a three-year research project abased at Cambridge University and a conference based there in 2003 that was attended by over 130 scientists from around the world.