PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 18, Issue no.1/ 2024

Authors :

Fazil Gökgöz 1 , Engin Yalçin 2

1 Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey 

2 Institute of Social Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

E-mail : * Corresponding author: fgokgoz@ankara.edu.tr

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2024181003

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