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Egadi archipelago, these dive guides represent useful understand their importance and thus act for their
tools for professionals who work in and with the MPA conservation. Books and the website are therefore a
of Egadi Islands. The list of marine sites of interest has tool for dissemination which stimulates the observation
been recently implemented through the publication of of the underwater environment, its natural features, as
a diving guide also reporting archaeological itineraries well as providing information to people who wish to
around the Egadi Islands [10]. Sustainable tourism is undertake snorkeling and diving in a beautiful marine
recognized as a high priority tool for environmental environment. l
and biological conservation. This project has been
Silvia Cocito, Ivana Delbono, Mattia Barsanti,
developed for residents, tourists and general users who Giuseppina Di Nallo, Chiara Lombardi, Andrea Peirano
wish to know more about marine biological resources, ENEA, Sustainable Territorial and Production Systems Department

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[9] Cocito S., Barsanti M., Delbono I., Lombardi C., Peirano A. (2014), Itinerari sommersi nelle isole di Marettimo e Levanzo, Isole Egadi”, RES Edizioni, Sarzana (SP), 72 pp
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 167 pp. ISBN: 9788894004908

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