PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.2/ 2025

Authors :

Daniela POPESCU* 1,2 , Andrei RADU 1,3

1 National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Bucharest, Romania 

2  Romanian Academy, Institute of Geography – Doctoral School in Geography, Bucharest, Romania 

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

E-mail : * Corresponding author: danielaenenew@yahoo.com,

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025192014

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