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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

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

Intergenerational tourism is an innovative type of tourism, studied and experimented by researchers and professors belonging to the Interdisciplinary Scientific Committee “Tourism Psychology”.
The Scientific Committee was established in 1984 and became an Association of Interdisciplinary Research in Tourism Psychology (A.R.I.P.T.) in 1999, today A.R.I.P.T. Fo.R.P. (since 2012) thanks to the extension of its objectives to training and planning.

Urban environment is a highly complex interactive socio-physical system, with competing expectations and priorities. Public health interventions have always had a fundamental role in the control of diseases in cities. WHO considers urbanization as one of the key challenges for public health in the twenty-first century, since cities offer significant opportunities to improve public health if health-enhancing policies and actions are promoted. A multidisciplinary approach is required, but the basic differences existing between technical and health disciplines make the interaction difficult.

Nello studio della cultura costituente in tema di pianificazione economica, l’attenzione al periodo considerato (1943-1948), caratterizzato dalle contingen- ze di un’economia di guerra e dal recupero della libertà politica, pone il preliminare interrogativo di cogliere, dall’incrocio dei dibattiti, il significato del termine pianificazione di volta in volta impiegato: se si stesse parlando di interventi a sostegno della ricostruzione, di piani pluriennali, o di un principio di sistemazione delle storiche presenze statali nell’economia.

Planning ability is fundamental for goal-directed spatial navigation. Preliminary findings
from patients and healthy individuals suggest that travel planning (TP)—namely,
navigational planning—can be considered a distinct process from visuospatial planning
(VP) ability. To shed light on this distinction, two right brain-damaged patients without
hemineglect were compared with a control group on two tasks aimed at testing VP
(i.e., Tower of London-16, ToL-16) and TP (i.e., Minefield Task, MFT). The former requires

People orient themselves in the environment using three different, hierarchically organized, spatial cognitive styles: landmark, route, and survey. Landmark style is based on a representation encompassing only visual information (terrain features); route style is based on a representation that connects landmarks and routes using an egocentric (body-centred) frame of reference; survey style is based on a global map-like representation that mainly involves an allocentric (world-centred) frame of reference.

Increasing evidence suggests that perception and action planning do not represent separable stages of a unidirectional processing sequence, but rather emerging properties of highly interactive processes. To capture these characteristics of the human cognitive system, we have developed a connectionist model of the interaction between perception and action planning: HiTEC, based on the Theory of Event Coding (Hommel et al. in Behav Brain Sci 24:849–937, 2001). The model is characterized by representations at multiple levels and by shared representations and processes.

Deficit in planning and problem-solving, affecting a wide range of neuropsychological patients, has been widely investigated using the Tower of London (ToL) test, as developed by Shallice (Philos Trans R Soc Lond Ser B Biol Sci 298:199-209, 1). The ToL taps on several executive functions (EF), such as planning, time for planning or rule breaks, which may be usefully indexed by different ToL measurements.

We investigated the relationship between verbal and visuo-spatial measures of working memory, inhibition, fluid intelligence and the performance on the Tower of London (ToL) task in a large sample of 830 healthy participants aged between 18 and 71 years. We found that fluid intelligence and visuo-spatial working memory accounted for a significant variance in the ToL task, while performances on verbal working memory and on the Stroop Test were not predictive for performance on the ToL.