A gondola will appear on the River Cam this Sunday to mark the start of a major international meeting which will examine the environmental dangers facing Venice.
A gondola will appear on the River Cam this Sunday to mark the start of a major international meeting which will examine the environmental dangers facing Venice.
Everyone knows that Venice floods. Not everyone knows that the situation is getting rapidly and drastically worse. At the start of the 20th century, St Mark’s Square was flooding about 10 times a year; a century later it is nearer 100 times. Furthermore, the implications of climate change are only just beginning to be understood.
The four-day conference will bring together over one-hundred scientists from a range of disciplines and many different countries. It will provide the first up-to-date examination of research into the problems facing Venice and the Venice Lagoon since the UNESCO reports of 1969, which followed the disastrous floods of 1966.
The meeting, entitled ‘Flooding and Environmental challenges for Venice and its Lagoon: State of knowledge 2003’ will be hosted by Churchill College. It is the fruit of a three-year project initiated and financed by ‘Venice in Peril’, the British charitable fund for the safeguarding of Venice.
Caroline Fletcher, Research Fellow at Churchill College says:
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