Storm surge barriers affect the future of salt marshes in the Venice Lagoon

Andrea D’Alpaos (Department of Geosciences), together with Davide Tognin, Marco Marani, Luca Carniello (Department ICEA), recently published the article “Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon” on the journal Nature Geoscience.
Field data from the Venice Lagoon highlight possible negative effects of storm-surge barriers – designed to reduce flooding of coastal urban areas – on the morphological evolution of the surrounding natural environment and salt marshes.