**5. Conclusions**

Our applied research demonstrates that National Park planning needs to be changed, facing the inconsistency of many aspects, both in national and in local framework:


In comparison with traditional approach of separation between nature sanctuaries and human activities, the new plan produces a paradigm shift, to induce a fertile relationship among all the components of local communities and to define a positive environmental restoration.

Based on the plan scenario, we will wait for long-term consequences in planning and actions in both regional land use managemen<sup>t</sup> and environment protection and raise the awareness of the advantages of a protection model based local resource development.

**Author Contributions:** All authors have contributed to the whole work. In particular, for writing—original draft, review and editing, the paragraphs were written as follow: 1. Introduction, M.C. and D.R.; 2.1. Circular Development and Circular Metamorphosis: A Theoretical Framework for the Plan of the National Park, M.C.; 2.2. The National Park of Lucania Apennines, Valdagri and Lagonegrese: A Case Study, M.C.; 2.3. Evidence in Local Context, D.R.; 2.4. The Structural Analysis: Current Status and Ongoing Priority Projects, D.R.; 2.5. The SWOT Matrix as Synthesis of Targeted Analysis, M.C. and D.R.; 3.1. The Inner Area Policy as a Beacon for Development, M.C.; 3.2. Interpretation for Drawing a Regeneration Flagship Project, D.R.; 4. Discussion: How to Balance Environment Preservation and Community Development? A 'Cluster Approach' for Circular Regeneration, M.C. and D.R.; 5. Conclusions, M.C. and D.R. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Acknowledgments:** Authors' research field activities and results were produced in a multisectoral project group composed of many experts and stakeholders, as follow: National Park Authority's managemen<sup>t</sup> group and technical o fficers; the research group, composed by RPA spa with Salvatore Corlianò and Dino Bonadies for general aspects, Sandro Amorosino for law aspects, Evagreen Ltd. with prof. Giuseppe Bazan and Dino Erdfeld for environmental aspects, Emanuela Coppola, Remo Votta, Valeria Mauro for anthropic aspects.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
