Giovanni Cecconi
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
Bacana is very wide because it is two kilometres by one. And the definition over the last century started to go there because it's a very close beach. It's a nice place to go out of the crowd with the family, do the picnic. So it's kind of a central park.
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
Because of the vegetation. The vegetation has produced an accretion of the shoals that now is above the maximum water level. And their business is to make the soil stable. And they are pretty well in doing that. And of course, who made this job? It is the barrier, the storm surge barrier, because the storm surge barrier contributed in channeling the flow, making it higher.
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
The increased velocity is able to transport more sand. It makes the difference, a huge difference.
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
For sure it is a nice thing because it increases the biodiversity. If you have an intertidal submerged vegetation with... and then you have a beach, and then you have a shore that ends up with an island. We call it island because it's above the maximum water level. Now it's much better because this will also improve the trapping capacity of the system.
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
Now we have to speak about the value of the barrier that in a way has tilted the dice in order to make the accretion more likely to occur.
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
The barrier is not producing directly the island. It's helping nature to build up. Nature is a natural engineer. Life needs soil. Soil with a certain property of humidity, nutrients, sun. And in order to get that proper combination, nature is spreading around the plant in this case, but also the clumps, a lot of seeds, thousands, in order to succeed in surviving. So how can you say it is bad?
Global News Podcast
The rebels turned rulers providing law and order in Syria
The barrier is helping nature to build up. So how can you say it is bad?