PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 18, Issue no.2/ 2024

Authors :

Çigdem Coskun HEPCAN 1 , Aybüke CANGÜZEL 2 , Ahsen Tugçe YÜKSEL 2 , Ioan Cristian IOJA 3 , Serif HEPCAN 1 , Jürgen BREUSTE 4

1 Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture;

 2 Ege University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences Applied Science, Department of Landscape Architecture;

 3 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Department of Geography 

4 University Hildesheim, Institute for Geography

E-mail : * Corresponding author: cigdem.coskun.hepcan@ege.edu.tr

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2024182009

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