Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Aleh Cherp (Central European University, Hungary) for the primary inspiration to work on this issue, Romualdas Juknys (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) for his kind invitation to be a part of the Review Panel of National Strategy for Sustainable Development of Lithuania, and Renata Dagiliūtė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and Alessandro Bonifazi (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy) for insightful comments. I would like to extend my thanks to David Galbreath (University of Aberdeen, UK) for his invitation to publish in the Journal of Baltic Studies, and to Timofey Agarin (University of Aberdeen, UK) and the two anonymous peer-reviewers for help and suggestions. I am grateful to Julia Leventon (Central European University, Hungary) and Matt Bond for proofreading. All the interpretations in the essay are my own and I bear the sole responsibility for mistakes.
Notes
Notes
1 Environmental Centre For Administration and Technology (ECAT), Appeal to the state institutions, the President, the Parliament and the Government of Lithuania signed by the participants of the conference ‘Contemporary aspects of the implementation of local sustainability’ organized by the Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology, 30–31 October 2003.
2 Interview with A. Alijošiūtė, director of Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology (ECAT), 18 July 2007, Kaunas, Lithuania.
3 Žinių Radijas [News Radio of Lithuania], Antradienio ‘Raktas’. Darnus vystymasis: ar strategija virsta praktika? [Tuesday's broadcast ‘Key’. Sustainable Development: does the strategy become practice?]. With participation of R. Pakalnis, co-author of the NSSD of Lithuania and member of the Review Panel of NSSD of Lithuania. Broadcast on 5 June 2007, available at: http://www.ziniur.lt/apie/pranesimai?item=1219, accessed 16 January 2009.