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Both the Blue Flag as municipal coastal and Green Flag (also Eco-Schools) as educational pro-environmental behaviour development programmes are recognized as the best practice internationally as voluntary and integrative environmental governance instruments. Both are the main objects of this comparative research-and-development study, based on case study research nationally and of best municipal practices, altogether being oriented towards necessity of municipal environmental governance further encouragement in La...

The study pertains to a regional and local context of the adaptation to climate change and explores the main international and European Union decisions in this regard, as well as the goals set for Latvia. The concept of adaptation is clearly connected with the drafting of sustainable development policy and must be handled at different levels. The study analyses the examples of international and local projects used in the situation of Latvia and the documents drafted by local governments, facilitating implementatio...