Strade litoranee adattive. Letture sistemiche tra vulnerabilità, dismissioni e forme di resilienza dei territori costieri

The ongoing research project, here described in its partial results, focuses on the “road space” as the "main everyday life infrastructure " and a crucial element for the socio-ecological transition of territories. Considering the pervasiveness of the road as a continuous artifact that characterizes the physical environment of our daily life, we believe that through its reinterpretation it is possible to give attention to the quality of life and to a regeneration of large parts of the territory. This research hypothesis was referred to those Italian coastal areas that can be considered most vulnerable to anthropic pressure and to the effects of climate change. The different fragilities and opportunities we consider find their location in the sealine, in the different geomorphologic and settlement structures crossed by the coastal freeways and roads, which are analysed within some significant buffers. With this perspective, one of the first goals of the research is the construction of a trans-scalar atlas, which relates coastal roads to environmental, demographic and socioeconomic issues, describing quantitative and qualitative aspects and showing criticalities and potentials in different territorial contexts. The atlas is proposed as an operational tool -between different scales and disciplines- useful for constructing national-scale and place-specific interpretations, orienting policies and projects toward systemic knowledge and actions, and highlighting the potential for new scenarios.