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The paper contains a new approach to the theory of Young measures, in a rather general and abstract setting. Starting from the definition of narrow convergence for sequences of probability measures on a completely regular Suslin space, the tightness condition is introduced, and the corresponding Prohorov's compactness theorem is proved. Young measures are introduced in Section 3 as measurable mappings \(x\mapsto \nu_x\) where \(\nu_x\) are probability measures on \(S\), and \(x\) varies in a measure space \(\Omega\). For this kind of mappings, tightness and narrow convergence are defined, and another convergence, called \(K\)-convergence, is introduced as a Cesàro-type limit (when \(N\to+\infty\)) of averages of the first \(N\) terms. Moreover, extensions of the Prohorov's compactness theorem are shown. The range of applications of the theory of Young measures is very wide: some links to lower closure theorems and denseness are shown in Section 5. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00020].