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This special issue examines the politics of land focusing on the
intersections of dominant land and property regimes and situated land
practices that are not characterized by open conflict, but rather
mundane everyday negotiations. The selected papers show that the
interrelations between landed practices and regimes of land are
extremely variegated and complex, shaped by socio-economic factors as
well as by their own peculiar geographies and temporalities. Thus, they
can be examined most adequately in the specific geographic, socioeconomic

The seismic sequence which started on August 24th, 2016, caused hundreds of casualties, damage and collapses in four regions of Central Italy (Lazio, Umbria, Abruzzo and Marche). The strongest event, which occurred on October 30th (Mw6.5), was forerun by four earthquakes with magnitude between 5.4 and 6.0. So far, a total of nine events with magnitude greater than or equal to 5.0 have taken place in the affected area. The earthquakes were caused by normal faults, all of them having NW–SE or NNW–SSE strike, approximately along the spine of the Apennine Mountains.