Aree Protette e PNRR. La valorizzazione integrata del Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio

The contribution explores the role of Protected Areas (PAs) in urban and territorial regeneration strategies, assessing how they have been integrated into the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). PAs, essential tools for biodiversity conser-vation and with a decisive potential for building resilient territories, represent an effective natural response to the challenges of contemporary metropolized areas. The renewed centrality they have recently assumed in international policies and strate-gies (Global Biodiversity Framework, 2022; EU Biodiversity Strategy, 2021; Na-tional Biodiversity Strategy, 2023) has not, however, been fully acknowledged within the PNRR, which allocates limited investments to PAs, thus limiting their potential strategic impact. In this context, the Vesuvius National Park represents an emblematic case of the adoption of an integrated territorial regeneration strategy, where the existing planning instruments, despite their complexity and overlapping, have contributed, starting with the Park Plan, to the definition of a shared vision. Indeed, although the Park has not accessed the extraordinary investments of the PNRR, two Integrated Urban Plans of the Metropolitan City of Naples have been promoted and funded within Measure M5 - Inclusion and Cohesion, Component 2 - Social Infrastructures, Families, Communities, and the Third Sector, Investment 2.2 Integrated Urban Plans, in the territorial area of the Park and its contiguous area, specifically to «define a new urban regeneration process around the Vesuvius Na-tional Park» (CMN, 2022a).