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Energy master plans are important tools for an effective and sustainable land governance. On the other hand, the stakeholder role in setting priorities for\ud planning energy interventions is dramatically increasing,\ud also in the light of recently issued European directives.\ud The priorities of energy-saving measures of the\ud Sicilian energy and environmental master plan were\ud originally established with the application of typical\ud economic indicators (the cost of saved energy and the\ud cost of avoided pollutant emissions). During the prioritization\ud process, there was a minor contribution from\ud stakeholders who were not directly involved in the\ud priority-setting process but were only asked to express\ud their opinions according to the in-force regulations.\ud Based on more active stakeholder involvement in hierarchizing\ud a given set of actions, as required by the\ud recently issued directives, the University of Palermo,\ud which participated in the development of this master\ud plan, assessed an ex post evaluation of these established\ud economy-based priorities, by means of the application\ud of a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) tool. The\ud resulting changed priorities, which lead to a better policy\ud allocation of the regional budget for energy efficiency in\ud the building sector, confirm the preeminent role played\ud by the stakeholders in the development of energy plans,\ud further supported by a sensitivity analysis

The work addresses one of the most important problems in contemporary environmental land planning. Already existing procedures, in fact, must now conform to the new requirements imposed by the recent national and international regulations and standards that call for a more conscious approach to the use of natural resources. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), for example, takes into account, the different effects of a plan in various fields such as the environment, the economy and the development. This obviously calls for global analysis tools that could help administrators, stakeholders and technicians in the decision-making process of such complex systems. SEA of the Town Master Plan of the Sicilian region is here utilized for demonstrating the effectiveness of a continuously concerted action with the stakeholders in the decision-making processes involving wide and complex territories. For this purpose, the Dashboard of Sustainability is applied to the Sicilian Town Master Plan by comparing the performances of nine Sicilian provinces in terms of different policy scenarios, through a consideration of the effects on the environment, mobility, society and town planning issues. This consultation procedure results in a very effective tool for politically ranking, within a shared frame, different alternatives referring to land developing interventions.