Sustainability Triple Bottom Line Management Enhancement for Municipal Level: Integrated Governance Environment Dimension

Abstract

To ensure sustainable development of a municipality, it is necessary to improve the potential for development of measures of environmental management balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions. A lot of municipalities having successfully established goals and objectives, tend to sustainable management, evaluate the quality of local governance, including preparation of documents of the environmental policy and setting the administrative tasks and priorities related to assumptions of sustainable development, systemic evaluation, interdisciplinary approach, and implementation of governance as a comprehensive collaborative management. This review article describes the main components of the environment of municipal governance. The study was conducted as a case study of the Salacgriva municipality. The case study analysis was based on a field research project of the Environmental Management Department of the University of Latvian in cooperation with the municipal council of the Salacgriva region-{''}Guidelines for environmental management in the coastal municipality of Salacgriva region{''}, the research results being used for spatial sustainable development.