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Sustainability 2012, 4, 2888-2921; doi:10.3390/su4112888 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Article Strategic Environmental Assessment of Port Plans in Italy: Experiences, Approaches, Tools Maria Cerreta * and Pasquale De Toro University of Naples “Federico II”, Department of Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage, via Roma 402, I-80134 Naples, Italy; E-Mail: detoro@unina.it * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: cerreta@unina.it; Tel.: +39-081-2538659; Fax: +39-081-2538649. Received: 11 September 2012; in revised form: 22 October 2012 / Accepted: 26 October 2012 / Published: 1 November 2012 Abstract: Evaluation is increasingly important in decision-making processes for the sustainable planning and design of port plans. It acts as a support for plan preparation, for making values, interests and needs explicit, and for exploring the components of the decision-making process itself. Evaluation can be likened to an “implicit tool” that can integrate approaches, methodologies and models, adapting to the many needs revealed during the decision-making process. New sustainability challenges call for new approaches to creating frameworks for the analysis and evaluation of plans and projects that allow the integration of multidimensional goals and values. Utilizing some selected case studies of port plans in six Italian cities, this paper explores how environ