Environmental Management of Urban Coastal Areas. Results of EMAS Application and Evaluation of the Pilot Actions

The Italian contribute concerns the opportunity of registering the site of Punta del Capo in Sorrento Municipality through the EMAS process. The approach works on a key site based methodology, by means of representing site environmental specificity and the territorial dynamics. Such approach integrates the wider MedCoast.Net Project in terms of : - methodology, giving priority to first step of Registration in order to highlight precise issues of urban coastal area;- - opportuntity, working under the umbrella of Regional Urban Park destination; - consistency, providing technical and operative solution for promoting sustainable tourism at local level. Further, the key site approach looks a good opportunity for extending EMAS registration to other homogeneous area of the Sorrento Municipality and to the traditional landscape of Sorrento Peninsula. The approach is consistent with some recent EU project experience based on simultaneous registration of a number of firms and Authorities operating in the same geographic territory (Cluster Approach) providing a kind of Territorial EMAS that could improve both competitiveness and environmental quality in the territory.