Marring GIS with cultural psychology

What is common between a safety campaign launched by Italy’s Viterbo Province and the Coastal GIS portal of the country’s Lazio Region to monitor erosion along the coastline and the Aniene River Linear Park project to safeguard the water corridor and set up a water-sensitive urban design? The three projects are classic examples of urban and regional planning riding on GIS technology and cultural psychology to overcome present drawbacks and crises to improve communication and awareness at all levels. The Aniene River Linear Park, for instance, analyses the different human needs that resulted in the complex relations at the base of the formation of urban settlements near the riverine areas to discern the multiplicity of the components, and of the multidisciplinary approach of the stakeholder involved in its development.