Rising coast adaptation: The Vietri sul Mare case

environment has adjusted to the morphology of Vietri’s territory. It is not by coincidence that the title of this paper highlights the predominant morphological feature of the landscape: the coastline. In the first place, the analysis of Vietri sul Mare territory has been carried out in all its dimensions (morphological, hydrographical, agronomical, historical and anthropic) in order to define the possible strategies of coexistence of the natural and the anthropic environment. In 1954, the extraordinary flooding of Bonea river caused the derangement of the neighbourhoods of Marina and Molina, in addition to the loss of many human lives. The present work has identified the criticalities connected to the landscape (alluvial cones, areas at risk of landslides and floods) that, together with the construction of a canal system and the concrete covering of a long stretch of the river, have caused the loss of the river/population relations