Monitoring and reporting system for municipal sustainable development governance in Latvia: sustainability outlook
2018
Kaulins, J., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia). Dept. of Environmental Science | Ernsteins, R., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia). Dept. of Environmental Science | Kudrenickis, I., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia). Dept. of Environmental Science
Saulkrasti municipality is the first in Latvia local authority where a sustainable development planning and its governance performance success measurements have been completed, based on sustainability indicators, realised in the frame of research-and-development project. The overall aim was to study municipal sustainable development governance process cycle performance qualities and quantities, including socialecological system studies, planning process, produced documents and their implementation studies as well as studies of construction and testing of necessary IS. The following research methods were complementary used: case study research; approbation research; expert interviews. The data and information basis of measurements were collected using official statistics; information of municipal institutions and enterprises; also private business; inhabitants' survey and public monitoring. Monitoring and measurements were based on application of the set of 64 indicators, a comprehensive indicator system (IS), that has been approved and included as an integral part of a mandatory municipal long-term planning document – Sustainable Development Strategy (2013). Weaknesses identified during the first cycle of the full approbation of this existing IS, are revised in the new post-monitoring version of it. Results of the measurements are reflected in the new type of municipal governance document named as municipal Sustainability Outlook – Municipal Sustainable Development Governance Survey.
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