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Venice at a crossroads: why no adaptation strategy can save the city as we know it.
An EU-backed study explores different long-term adaptation pathways for Venice under rising seas.
Venice has coexisted with the sea for 1 500 years, but accelerating sea level rise and land subsidence now threaten its very existence. A new study supported by the EU-funded P2R and CoCliCo projects analyses different long-term adaptations for Venice and its lagoon. Published in ‘Scientific Reports’, the findings are stark: no strategy can preserve the city as it is now indefinitely. Instead, adaptation requires accepting fundamental transformation.
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