Proceedings of the 20th IPSAPA/ISPALEM International Scientific Conference. The Erratic Behavior of the Landscape-cultural Mosaic: Emotion, Energy, Experience

The 20th IPSAPA conference was held in Reggio Calabria on July 7-8, 2016. The call for papers was followed by the participants more faithfully than usual, and the papers cover most of the foreseen items in a balanced way. The call for papers therefore is also a good outline for the introduction to this book. Since 2005 IPSAPA conference focuses on the successful keyword "landscapecultural mosaic". Sometimes it prevailed realism, sometimes economic sustainability, sometimes the evolutionary dynamics, sometimes the pursuit of excellence. This time we went back to the domain of the imagination and to the fascination of discovery, taking the line of the conferences of 2009 and 2010, called respectively: "The backstage of the landscape-cultural mosaic: Invisible, Inaccessible, Inexistent" and "The Wonderland in the landscape-cultural mosaic: Idea, Image, Illusion". The fantastic invention was present in part also in the 2013 conference entitled "Utopias and dystopias in the landscape-cultural mosaic: Visions, Values, Vulnerability".