Wenjie Li

BIO

For the Azores Islands, the narrow coastal edge is one of the few land areas with potential for settlement. Rising sea level trends and wave-amplified storm effects lead to more frequent coastal flooding and coastal erosion, threatening larger populations. As one of the representative towns of San Miguel, Vila Franca do Campo can provide a direction for the development of other towns in San Miguel and even other islands of the Azores by changing the resilience of their land-sea interface. Therefore, three project strategies are proposed around Vila Franca do Campo to address the relationship between economic activity, the quality of life of the population and the land-sea interface, with governance and decision-making that promotes the sustainable development of the land-sea interface at different levels of the economic-ecological-cultural system. The first step is to integrate the city's existing infrastructure, restore the connectivity of the coastal zone, and improve the relationship issues between economic activity and the quality of life of the population along the coast to cope with future pandemic pressures. The second step is the creation of a coastal ecological corridor to restore the function of coastal wetlands and resist marine erosion; the third step is the materialisation and creation of a recognisable coastal city and sustainable cultural heritage around local culture.