PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.1/ 2025

Authors :

Cosmina-Andreea MANEA 1

1 Doctoral School Simion Mehedinti, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail : * Corresponding author: cosmina.manea@drd.unibuc.ro

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025191020

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