The article analyses the role and importance of renewable energy sources in the context of energy security. One of the means which may improve state energy as well as national security is by increasing the use of local ...

Many voluntary environmental standards together with certification schemes were created in the last decades. The phenomenon is that majority of them are non-governmental standards. It means it was created by non-governmental ...

Land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector is one of the climate change mitigation measures. However this sector is strongly influenced by natural processes that stimulate greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and ...

In the 1980s the Nature Frame started as a simple zoning of green belts, recreation areas and protected areas. It has progressively been worked out (and formally developed in 1988-89) into hierarchical structure of ...

Sustainable development of renewable energy sources is a very complex and manydimensional process. Renewable energy development cannot be dispersed and infinite; the location of the development, the extent and geographical ...

The article analyzes potential and actual utilization of agro and wooden biofuel in Lithuania. More detailed analysis are done of biofuel which grows or potentially able to grow in temperate climate zone. These studies ...

Public participation is one among main principles of the sustainable development. One essential prerequisite of the sustainable development is full-scale – participations of citizens in decisions making process. Participation ...

The rapid development of protected ecosystems and the large set of restrictions protecting the ecosystems are losing public support and causing stakeholder dissatisfaction Protected areas in many EU countries which provide ...

Management of rural territories is regulated by legal acts and territorial planning documents. The article analyzes processes of farms land tenure formation and changes of farming lands and forests area. Purchase of land ...

This study reviews situation of preparing nature management plans in Lithuania, analyses legal acts of evaluation and reviews, changes and practice as well. It is described the main principles of nature management plans ...