Maritime Cultural Landscape collaborative governance

The paper tackles the problem of "coast consumption" and "sea consumption", understood as the density of use by man expressed by the relationship between boats and water surface. Considering the sea-coast-ports and maritime culture system as a "maritime cultural landscape", the research aims to overcome the critical issue of coast-sea consumption by using the theory of "commons". Focusing on equal use of the coast and sea, the maritime cultural landscape is intended as common good. This implies the need to involve the urban and maritime communities both in its care and protection. Starting from this assumption, we take into account the maritime cultural landscape as a "cultural ecosystem", as an expression of the heterogeneity of urban and maritime communities and their interrelationships. In this perspective, the paper proposes to consider "ecosystem cultural values" and the "ecosystem cultural services" in activating the "coastal community" for a collaborative governance model . Furthermore, the research framework has been tested on Cilento maritime cultural ecosystem, in the province of Salerno (Campania region) overlooking the Tyrrhenian coast south of Naples. We look at a coastal portion of Cilento - Camerota, Centola and San Giovanni a Piro Municipalities - considered as a maritime cultural sub-ecosystem.