PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 20, Issue no.1/ 2026

Authors :

Traian Ciprian Stroe 1, 2* , Lonie Andres Balaban 2 and Liliana Panaitescu 1,2

1 University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania 

2 Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania  

E-mail : * Corresponding author:  str_ciprian@yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2026201009

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