Nowadays much attention is paid to air pollution in the world. Effective and suitable management of atmosphere protection is very important, because climate change, human health and survival of biodiversity depends on it. For these reasons atmosphere protection management should get our special interest. The aim of this work is to analyse the structure of atmosphere protection in Lithuania and to provide proposals on how to improve it. This work also suggests how to improve the policy of atmosphere protection and ensure appropriate air quality in Lithuania. This master‘s work consists of four parts, which are designated to analyse the structure of atmosphere protection management and cooperation between institutions, to make systematic analysis of atmosphere protection laws and examine possible inaccuracies, to find inaccuracies in institutional, legal and financial systems, which are related to the management of atmosphere protection and to sugest some improvements on how to improve the structure of atmosphere protection management and the policy of atmosphere protection. Implementing the tasks of this master‘s work, the importance of atmosphere air management was taken into consideration in the context of sustainable development, Lithuanian and European Union laws and Lithuanian institutional structure of atmosphere protection management were analysed and suggestions related to the improvement of atmosphere protection management structure improvement were given. The... [to full text]