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The future of Venice

Can Venice be sustained as a living city for its residents?

  • Case study,
  • Module,
  • Changing places,
  • Environmental interactions and management,
  • Key Stage Four,
  • Key Stage Five
  • Overview
  • Population and tourism
  • Physical environment and flooding
  • Lagoon ecosystem and sustainable use

What future for Venice?

Venice is one of the best known and most visited historic cities in the world. The amount of tourists that, on average, visit Venice each day is now higher than 60,000 - more than the entire resident population of the city. Despite this, the scale of the demographic and environmental challenges facing the city are not widely known or understood by the numerous tourists who visit each year, and its future is uncertain. Sustaining Venice as a living city for its residents and preserving its rich heritage for future generations of visitors requires careful management and long-term planning.

The future of Venice is also tied to the future of its lagoon – the ‘Lagoon of Venice’ (LoVe). In this way the problems facing the city (and the solutions) are a microcosm (or case study in miniature) of much larger scale sustainability issues facing the world today. This is because it so clearly illustrates the need to take a holistic management approach for ensuring a sustainable future: one that considers social factors and the dynamics of the surrounding physical environment.

This resource contains three lessons which focus on three main strands:

  • Lesson one: Population, demographic change and tourism

  • Lesson two: Physical environment and flooding

  • Lesson three: Lagoon ecosystem and sustainable use

This resource is the product of a fieldtrip and partnership between geography students at Liceo Classico Marco Foscarini (Venice) and Eton College.

The video clip resources were produced by Marco Foscarini students and the factsheets involved collaboration between the two schools. The project was supervised by teachers Cecilia Stefinlongo and Veronica Harkins (Foscarini) and Dr David Anderson and Justin Nolan (Eton). The idea for the project, and much support, came from Jane Da Mosto, and thanks are also due to Flora PedullĂ  for organising the logistics of the fieldtrip. This resource links to the interview with Jane Da Mosto, founder of We Are Here Venice.

This module was produced as a result of an A Level Geography fieldtrip that took place in October 2016.

Planned, organised, and led with Jane Da Mosto and Flora PedullĂ  (We Are Here Venice), and teachers Cecilia Stefinlongo and Veronica Harkins (Foscarini) and David Anderson and Justin Nolan (Eton).

The video clip resources were produced by Marco Foscarini students and the factsheets resulted from research and collaboration between the two schools. The fieldtrip included investigation in both Venice and by boat in the Lagoon of Venice.

 

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  • Venice-fieldtrip-background (.docx)

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