From 6th to 15th October 2016 the Veneto Region organized, in collaboration with ITLA (International Terraced Landscapes Alliance) the Third World Meeting on Terraced Landscapes “Paesaggi terrazzati: scelte per il futuro/Terraced landscapes: choosing the future”. The Meeting took place in Venice, Padua – plenary conferences – and in ten different terraced venues of the Italian peninsula where the thematic sessions took place. The innovative Meeting articulation involved more than two thousand participants: researchers, scholars, representatives of local administrations, technicians, tourism operators, farmers, artisans, inhabitants. The report of the Meeting, along with its final outcomes, is organized in the first part of the volume....