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Accelerated urbanization represents one of the most significant pressures on the urban environment. The transition from "green" to "grey" amplifies the vulnerability of cities to the effects of climate change (temperature rise, floods, droughts, and air quality degradation). In this context, urban green spaces, and public parks in particular, acquire a strategic role as nature-based solutions (NBS). NBS are capable of providing essential ecosystem services such as mitigating the urban heat island effect, stormwate...

The energy sector is particularly important in the Romanian economy, both in terms of its size and in terms of the impact of developments in this sector on other branches of the economy. Developments in the energy sector, particularly in the electricity sector, also have social implications. As a result, the energy regulation institutions have been heavily involved in this area, using all the instruments at its disposal, both from a competition and a state aid perspective: investigation of possible infringements o...

The NW part of the Black Sea is under the strong influence of the Danube River that discharges into the basin. Danube, through the input of sediment and water, has a double function in controlling the gas presence in NW Black Sea shallow sediments. The first function is to deliver into the sea the terrestrial organic matter that it is added to the marine in origin one. The second function is to provide a sustained sedimentation rate, needed to bury older organic matter, conducting to biogenic generation of methane...

The way people perceive risks determines their reactions to and engagement in public campaigns, new development projects or clean-up and remediation initiatives. Since local communities represent important stakeholders in the sustainable development of a region, their beliefs and social representations of risk are important indicators that need a careful analysis. Mining communities are of particular interest to social and environmental scientists given the long-term pollution resulting from such activities and th...