  The comparison of angular correlations between charmed mesons and charged
hadrons produced in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions can give insight into the
mechanisms through which charm quarks lose energy in a QGP medium, produced in
ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and can help to recognize possible
modifications of their hadronization induced by the presence of the QGP. The
analysis of pp and p-Pb data and the comparison with predictions from pQCD
calculations, besides constituting the necessary reference for interpreting
Pb-Pb data, can provide relevant information on charm production and
fragmentation processes. In addition, possible differences between the results
from pp and p-Pb collisions can give information on the presence of cold
nuclear matter effects, affecting the charm production and hadronization in the
latter collision system.
  A study of azimuthal correlations between D$^0$, D$^+$, and D$^{*+}$ mesons
and charged hadrons in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV and p-Pb collisions
at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV are presented. D mesons were reconstructed
from their hadronic decays at central rapidity in the transverse-momentum range
$3 \leq p_{\rm T}^{\rm D} \leq 16$ GeV/$c$ and were correlated to charged
particles reconstructed in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta| < 0.8$.
Perspectives for the measurement in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ =
2.76 TeV will also be presented.
