1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LITHUANIA: HOW TO STRENGTHEN IT? Assist. Prof. Roberta Kareivaite

2. Multi-criteria methods: SAW (Simple Additive Weighting) method, TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method, COPRAS (Complex Proportional Assessment) method, and Integrated method.

3. Economic dimension Environmental dimension Social dimension Institutional dimension “Tetragon” principle of sustainable development

4. Integrated Sustainable Development Index

5. Economic Development Index (EDI), Social Development Index (SDI), Environmental Development Index (EnDI), and Institutional Development Index (IDI)

6. How to strengthen it? To identify and retain objectives and procedures of the implementation, the coordination and the prevention management of the sustainable development’s policy; Ensure that the coordination institutions understand and apply the principles of the good governance for the policies financial mechanisms and justify expectations of sustaining states regarding to policy’s application for sustainable development purposes; To take care for society’s members, that they could have public information and tools, necessary for controlling the functioning institutional system for the sustainable development, whereas by necessity it should suffice the information to make a complaint or report regarding the mechanisms violations; To inform society’s members and individuals about violations and measures to eliminate them.

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