PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.2/ 2025

Authors :

Victor MALAIRAU 1 , Cosmina-Daniela URSU 1,2 , Roxana TABARA 1 and Adina-Eliza CROITORU 2,3*

1 Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Geography Doctoral School, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania 

2 Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania 

 3Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Physical and Technical Geography/Research Center for Sustainable Research, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj,

E-mail : * Corresponding author: adina.croitoru@ubbcluj.ro; adina04@yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025192007

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