Puzzle nel caos. Attuare la transizione con il PNRR. La matrice di fattibilità del PiSTE dell’area vasta di Crotone

The urgency of the Ecological and Digital Transition (Moraci 2022), along with the utilization of PNRR resources by 2026, often stimulates impromptu and maintenance-focused planning, lacking a unified vision (Charter 2020), with the sole imperative of 'expenditure of resources.' In this context, the case of the vast area of Crotone, a fragile Calabrian territory in every aspect – climate, environmental, economic, social, and planning – comes to the forefront. To address the challenges of this area, a Strategic Ecological Transition Plan has been developed, aiming to make its territory 'more resilient and sustainable' by leveraging PNRR resources for its implementation. The Strategic Plan is the outcome of an analysis – conducted through an inductive-experimental approach and a final cross-verification – of the issues and the state of the art related to climate, sustainability, and transition within the framework of global, European, national, and local policies, strategies, and instruments. From this analysis emerged the 'Action Plans for Sustainable Energy and Climate' of the European initiative 'Covenant of Mayors,' and the 'National Plan for Ecological Transition,' which constitute the legal-disciplinary drivers for drafting the Plan in subject. In the final cross-verification, three matrices were developed, including one for 'technical-economic feasibility,' aiming to correlate the Plan's actions with PNRR funding guidelines and local business capacity. The drafting of the Plan provided an intriguing opportunity to experiment with a holistic and multi-scale Transition strategy applied to the vast area scale, defining a new territorial arrangement capable of addressing climate impacts (2030), achieving full carbon naturality (2050), and envisioning a Neoanthropocene (2100). In particular, the construction of the 'technical-economic feasibility matrix' allowed for a positive assessment of the Plan's implementation through the PNRR, enabling its territorialization within a planned systemic framework.