PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.1/ 2025

Authors :

Andreea BETERINGHE 1, 2* , Adrian IRASOC 1, 3 , Nicoleta IONAC 1 , Nicolae ILIE 2 , Dragos Andrei SÎRBU 2, Eduard POPESCU 2

1 Doctoral School” Simion Mehedinti” – Nature and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania 

2 S.C. Active Interventions in the Atmosphere, Bucharest, Romania 

3 Meteo Romania (National Meteorological Administration), Bucharest, Romania

E-mail : * Corresponding author: andreea.beteringhe@s.unibuc.ro

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025191012

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