PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.1/ 2025

Authors :

Oguzhan ERDOGAN 1 , Onur KULAÇ 2

1 Department of Management Information Systems, Bucak Zeliha Tolunay Applied Technology and Business Management School, Burdur Mehmet Akif University,Türkiye

 2 Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Pamukkale University,Türkiye

E-mail : * Corresponding author: : oerdogan@mehmetakif.edu.tr (O.E.); okulac@pau.edu.tr; onurkulac@yahoo.com (O.K.)

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025191010

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