Coastal Water Bodies

1. Mediterranean Coastal Areas at Risk Between Conservation and Development.- 1.1 Issues of the Mediterranean Coastal Zone and the Challenge of Integration.- 1.2 The WADI Project Approach.- 1.3 Nature and Culture Conflicts at Study-site Level.- 1.4 Shared Expertise and Policy Making.- 1.5 Lessons Learnt from the WADI Experience.- 1.6 References.- 2. Wetland Socioeconomy: The Case of Lake Maryut (Egypt).- 2.1 Conceptual Framework.- 2.2 The WADI Experience on Maryut Study Site.- 2.3 What Should Be Done? 2.4 Reference.- 3. Integration of the Gender Dimension Into Socio-economic Analysis.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Results: From the Case Studies to an Overall Perspective.- 3.3 Common Issues.- 3.4 Common Driving Forces.- 3.5 Lessons Learnt in a Wider Perspective.- 3.6 References.- 4. Environmental Conflicts and Conflict Management: Some Lessons from the WADI Experience at El Hondo Nature Park (Southeastern Spain).- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Background on Conflict and Conflict Analysis.- 4.3 The Importance of Defining ‘Conflict’.- 4.4 The Central Role of Conflicts in the Rationale of WADI.- 4.5 Narratives as Necessary Results of WADI.- 4.6 El Hondo as a Conflictive Site: Science and Integrated Science and the Reframing of Conflicts: Two Illustrative Cases.- 4.7 WADI in the Boxing Ring of El Hondo: Testing the Role of Integrated Research in Re-framing of Conflicts.- 4.8 References.- 5. Soil Salinisation in the Grosseto Plain (Maremma, Italy): An Environmental and Socio-economic Analysis of the Impact on the Agro-ecosystem.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The Grosseto Plain: A Recent Landscape with an Age-old History.- 5.3 The Agricultural Structure of the Grosseto Plain.- 5.4 Salinity Hazard in the Grosseto Plain.- 5.5 Soil Salinisation and Agronomic Management of the Irrigated Land of Maremma.- 5.6 References.- 6. Evolution, Impacts and Management of the Wetlands of the Grosseto Plain,Italy.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Origins and Evolution of the Grosseto Plain.- 6.3 Diaccia Botrona Provincial Nature Reserve.- 6.4 The Maremma Regional Park.- 6.5 The Other Coastal Wetlands of the 'Maremma Wetland Complex'.- 6.6 General Considerations on Management Strategies and Conclusions.- 6.7 References.- 7. The Ombrone Delta and the Two Chief Systems of the World Today: Environmentalist and Economicist.- 7.1 The Occasion: How Geographers Have Studied the Ombrone Delta.- 7.2 The Construction: How the ‘Park’ Has Formed.- 7.3 The Alienation: How Society Has Forgotten Nature.- 7.4 The Infatuation: How the Sentimental Animalism Has Asserted Itself.- 7.5 The Discrimination: How the Antithesis Between Protected and Not Protected Areas Has Been Imposed.- 7.6 The Mystification: How Scientific Data on Climate Change Have Become a Trendy Bias.- 7.7 The Subornation: How Scientific Data on the Environment Have Become a Political Passkey.- 7.8 The Falsification: How Scientific Data on the Environment Have Become an Economical Deceit.- 7.9 The Suggestion: How To Appreciate the Historical and Literary Antecedents of Environmentalism.- 7.10 The Conversion: How Suggestive the Philosophical Roots of Environmentalism Are.- 7.11 The Confusion: How Environmentalism and Economicism Eventually Merge.- 7.12 The Camouflage: How To Go Back to the Story of the Delta and the Park.- 7.13 The Revelation: How Environmentalism Can Exploit Religion Too.- 7.14 The Resignation: How Not To Deceive Oneself.- 7.15 References.- Index.