The disconnect between Venice and the Veneto Region finds its roots in the historical geography of the area. After the separate evolution of the two Venetiae during the Middleage, the Venetian Regional State projected a Venice-centred archipelago logic on the Mainland, which should be considered today not only to explain the disconnect between the Region and its Capital city, but especially in view of the upcoming birth of a " Metropolitan Venice " .

The effects of climate variability and change will impact on the quality and availability of natural resources, biodiversity and territorial stability acting also as amplifiers of pre-existing environmental vulnerabilities. These environmental effects will generate risky conditions for the health and wellbeing of the population. An adaptation of the current environmental and health prevention systems is therefore required to cope with these changes. It is indeed necessary to re-think the way in which prevention, surveillance and monitoring activities are planned, organized and implemented as well as the response capacities to emergencies aimed to reduce negative impacts on the exposed population. What do we know? What should we do? Health risks and climate change are a well known issue in scientific literature and are widely reported and documented in various national and international government report and assessments.The management of emerging risks related to new meteo-climatic s...

Other than the ‘Objectives and Introduction’ and ‘Conclusions’, this study is meant as a reference manual regarding the evidence for the contact period between the autochthonous Mesolithic hunter-gatherer population and the immigrant Neolithic farmers in the Study Area, which stretches from Western Anatolia to the Trentino-Alto Adige at the head of the Adriatic, and which is broken into 24 Regions, grouped into 6 Macro-Regions. Through the published archaeological record, site visits and meetings with regional experts, this study attempts to elucidate and summarise how the Terminal Mesolithic population in the 24 Regions interacted with the Initial Neolithic migrants. The study differentiates between Mesolithic sites in which ‘Neolithic’ attributes appear at a point in time and Neolithic sites established by migrant farmers which might have encompassed Mesolithic attributes, recognising that this last is in many cases more difficult to elucidate. The contact period, which can be short or last many centuries, has been termed ‘Transition’ to avoid the Mesolithic-Neolithic dichotomy, since hunter-gatherers can in many instances be seen to continue with their ancestral lifeways after acquiring some desirable Neolithic attributes, and where possible, their progress towards the full Neolithic or their disappearance from the archaeological record has been tracked over time. The Mesolithic way of life eventually disappears from the archaeological record, and the Transition is a watershed moment for humanity as mankind transitions from a life lived broadly in symbiosis with nature to one lived in which nature is altered to meet mankind’s desires. Key-words: Mesolithic, Neolithic, Transition, Region, ‘game in the pen’, ALBOT & ALBOT.