2. FERGUS-ON
“The true journey of discovery does
not look for new lands, but has new
eyes”.
Marcel Proust

3. FERGUS-ON
Phase I - Data collection
A knowledge of the territory makes up the first phase.
This is obtained through a collection of data in situ
whose main topics are:
Climatology
Environmental geology
Water resources
Pedology
Vegetation
Fauna
Real property

4. FERGUS-ON
Phase II - Data analysis and arrangement of
management tools
This phase will imply the creation of:
• a Digital Elevation Model (D.E.M.)
• a Geographic Information System (G.I.S.),
in order to make:
• an Ecologic Map of the Landscape
• a Bio-diversity Map.

5. FERGUS-ON
The collected data will be useful for the arrangement of
a referential structure for the landscape planning via
successive inter-linked modelling phases:
• representational models
• process models
• evaluation models
• changing models
• impact models
• choice models.

6. FERGUS-ON
The modelling results are examined according to some
evolving cultural sceneries: i.e. an ‘Arcadia-type’
tourism or return to an idyllic state, a ‘Disneyland-type’
tourism or alienated enjoyment of free time, an
‘ecologic-type’ tourism and so on.
Such analyses will lead to:
• a Portofino Knowledge System (P.K.S.)
• and, from it, to a Decision Support System
(D.S.S.)
The D.S.S. is a system which will allow the competent
public authorities to identify and solve the problems by
taking the most appropriate decisions
when dealing with landscape management.

7. FERGUS-ON
Decision Support System (D.S.S.)
The Decision Support System (D.S.S.) will in specific
allow:
• to co-ordinate the production and spread processes
of knowledge and information;
• to evaluate the consequences of different actions
(simulations);
• to use a learning instrument which will allow
communication, interpretation and experimentation,
in order to develop coherent solutions with the
desired environmental quality;
• to support (rather than substitute) the expressed
technical evaluations;
• to improve the quality level of the decision making.

8. FERGUS-ON
Phase III - Creation of the EcoCentre and
training activities
In this last phase, as well as the knowledge and
instrument system, the Foundation has the aim of
creating an ‘EcoCentre’:
an operational factor for the entire project, a
support and place which will generate innovation,
an independent but at the same time inter-linked
centre with all the subjects able to pick up the
behavioural changing signs dictated by the new
millennium.
The aim of the Centre will be to transform the
know-how acquired in situ into a stronger
environmental sensitivity of the local authorities
and communities.

9. FERGUS-ON
Phase III - Creation of the EcoCentre and
training activities

10. FERGUS-ON
Within this phase, the activity of the Fergus
Foundation will focus on the training and
development of technical-administrative people
and of operators in the educational sector, with
the aim of:
• spreading the subjects linked to environment
education;
• awakening society to the environmental
problems of the lived area.
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11. FERGUS-ON
Expected activities:
• A centre for a confrontation at European level,
between experts on eco-economics, able to give
information on the convenience of the present
model of resource withdrawal.
• The management of forums on specific
subjects, ‘the conversations on Portofino’,
and of annual meetings of assessment and
confrontation between the most advanced
European experiences.
• Organised relations with universities, suggesting
innovative research lines: from intelligent
instrumental monitoring, to bio-monitoring.
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12. FERGUS-ON
• A laboratory for the preservation, maintenance
and valorisation of the bio-diversity (e.g.
arboreal archaeology).
• A support for the environmental preservation
intervention (e.g. ‘eco-software’).
• The ecologic conversion of the productive
activities:
• possible agriculture (a new agricultural
landscape);
• re-conversion of tourist activities based on
‘bio-centred’ free time consumption schemes
(e.g. ‘bio-watching’).

13. FERGUS-ON
The future

14. FERGUS-ON
What is under development
Within Phase II (Data analysis and arrangement of
management tools), the following points are still under
development:
• Ecologic Landscape Map;
• faunal research for the compilation of the Bio-diversities
Map;
• census of the agricultural terracing;
• photographic investigation for the compilation of a
computerised herbarium;
• the web site;
• the entire modelling phase.
The completion of the analyses regarding the
promontory of the Monte of Portofino and the annexed
Sea Preserve, and all Phase III (Creation of the
EcoCentre and training activities) still have to be
carried out.

15. FERGUS-ON
Educational role of the EcoCentre
The EcoCentre is also an educational place for:
• observations of the natural and cultivated
environments (bio-watching);
• organised technical-scientific activities;
• selected ecologic solutions, as well as for
individualisation of the training paths of new
environment professions, for modalities and
permanent training techniques integrated by new
computerised environmental and telecom
technologies (eco-software) which will allow net-
work connections and distance-working locations;
• promotion of a holistic approach for environmental
problems;
• organisation of conferences and training for the
reception of environmental tourism.

16. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
The following list of maps has already been put into a
Geographic Information System (G.I.S.) where the inter-
sectorial compatibilities have already been checked:
1. Geologic map
2. Hydro-geologic map
3. Morphologic map
4. Lithologic map
5. Map of fractures
6. Map of geologic sections
7. Map of hydrogeographic grid
8. Pedologic map
9. Map of vegetable associations
Volume “Phytocoenosis and Map of Vegetation of the
Promontorio of Portofino”
10. Map of the fauna
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17. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
(follow up of Geographic Information System - G.I.S.)
11. Map of land use (year 1936)
12. Map of land use (year 1954)
13. Map of land use (year 1974)
14. Map of land use (year 1991)
15. Map of present land use (year 2000)
16. Maps of fire
17. Maps of bounds
18. Map of roads, buildings and of excursion itineraries of
historical interest
Digital Elevation Model
19. D.E.M. - Map of exposures
20. D.E.M. - Map of gradients
21. D.E.M. - Map of elevations and bathymetry
22. D.E.M. - Map of irradiation
23. Map of analytic-perceptive photographic investigation

18. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
Book “Phytocoenosis and vegetation map
of the Promontorio of Portofino”

19. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
23. Map of analytic-perceptive photographic investigation
A27: Example of ‘cultivated land', located in the upper west side of Valle Vescini.

20. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
23. Map of analytic-perceptive photographic investigation
B49: Outcrop of Portofino Conglomerate in Punta Chiappa: the bedding planes,
immersed towards SE, are evident because exposed by marine erosion.

21. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
23. Map of analytic-perceptive photographic investigation
B77: Resort Pietre Strette, characterised by blocks of Portofino Conglomerate tectonic
disjointed and shaped by meteorological agents.

22. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
23. Map of analytic-perceptive photographic investigation
C19: West side of Seno of San Fruttuoso. Rather evident is the monocline structure
of the Portofino Conglomerate interrupted and disordered by a set of normal
parallel faults facing NW-SE circa.

23. FERGUS-ON
Accomplished activities / Documents
23. Map of analytic-perceptive photographic investigation
E24:
Niche of detachment and accumulation of
recent landslide of bedding type, placed
at level with the anticline, and laying
below Castellaro of Camogli.
E23:
Complex folded structures in the Calcari
of Monte Antola exposed in the side
between Castellaro of Camogli and San
Rocco.