Le coste dei Nebrodi tra mosaico paesaggistico, beni culturali e criticità complesse. Visioni e Scenari Strategici progettuali nel paradigma della sostenibiltà

The coastline that delimits and separates (or joins) the geographical area of the Nebrodi (Eastern Sicily) from (or with) the Mediterranean Sea, includes beaches, coastlines and areas now more or less urbanized along a border section of about 104 km. Along this coastline there are (mainly in a linear way) 15 urban centers going towards Messina-Palermo, and precisely they are: Oliveri, Patti, Gioiosa Marea, Piraino, Brolo, Naso, Capo d’Orlando, Torrenova, Sant’Agata di Militello, Acquedolci, Caronia, Santo Stefano di Camastra, Reitano, Motta d’Affermo, Tusa, all falling (due to administrative competence) in the Metropolitan City of Messina. The composition of the coastline is divided into three macro dimensions: 1) the beaches (understood as the space that includes the movement of the sea); the dunes (intended as the most natural space and not directly touched by the movement of the waves but where there are valuable environmental assets); the "waterfront" (which instead reflects the composition and organization of human activity eg infrastructure, building, landscape, ...). Thus it is possible to clearly understand that the coastline defines a "wider" territory that has its own complexity where natural activities (eg the water cycle) and human activities (eg building constructions) intertwine and develop giving different shape to the places. However, in this mosaic the peculiar relationship between man and nature emerges, a relationship that has not always guaranteed, in recent years, the right balance of the two dimensions and has increasingly raised environmental criticalities (with negative effects also on human activities) that they require strategic and structural interventions according to a holistic and / or integrated vision. In this sense the progressive urbanization of the coastal areas (often pushed up to the shoreline and even to the river beds) with coastal roads, second homes, tourist villages, purifiers, ... (now a common situation in Italy) has produced the real stiffening of the coastline and questioning of ecological cycles. In this framework it is necessary to start again with new visions and scenarios (for the Nebrodi coasts) that have their own foundation in the sustainability paradigm.