Darni žemės ūkio ir neurbanizuotų regionų plėtra : mokslo studija / Aleksandro Stulginskio universitetas; sudarytoja Dalia Štreimikienė; Aistė Galnaitytė, Tomas Baležentis, Daiva Makutėnienė, Vytautas Pilipavičius, Rimantas Dapkus, Dalia Štreimikienė, Vilma Atkočiūnienė, llona Kiaušienė, Biruta Švagždienė

Abstract

Sustainable development allows balance between different perspectives of society development. It is defined as a compromise between the environmental, economic and social goals of society, which make it possible to achieve universal welfare for present and future generations, within the limits of permissible envi-ronmental impacts. Despite economic progress, the world is currently facing global challenges of sustainable development: increased atmospheric, water and soil pollution, climate change, ozone depletion, natural re-source depletion, degradation of natural environment, soil erosion, loss of biodiversity and valuable ecosys-tems, the continuing deterioration of people health, increasing inequality and social exclusion. All these global issues were reflected in the United Nations (UN) summit in 2015, which adopted a new sustainable develop-ment agenda: “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The UN summit also identified new Sustainable Development Goals that have changed the Millennium Development Goals. The UN Agenda for Sustainable Development up to 2030 emphasizes the sustainable use of land ecosystems, the sustainable development of forests, the reduction of desertification and land degradation, and the preservation of biodiversity. It is therefore important to ensure coherence in various areas of society; especially agriculture sector is sensitive to all these issues linked to sustainable development. Agriculture is constantly undergoing economic, technological and managerial changes. Agriculture faces very important challenges for sustainable development around the world. In addition, agriculture is tightly related to the energy, transport and industrial sectors. For example, the production and use of renewable energy sources - bioenergy and biofuels - forms the basis for the development of the bio economy [...]