Territorial Impact Assessment of Territorial Cohesion in Italy. Foreward

The article is the presentation of the works published in the special issue of the BSGI, which contains the intermediate contributions of the ten research units and those of researchers from the Agency for Territorial Cohesion and the governmental Department for Cohesion Policies. It defines the objectives of the common research program (PRIN2015 Territorial impact assessment of territorial cohesion in Italy) and briefly illustrates the research methodology.