STATISTICAL STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN ROMANIA, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract: Widely debated concept, at least in the last three decades, sustainable development remains an important objective of mankind, even in the third millennium. Objectives of sustainable development, in our country, are contained in several categories, which are grouped into „critical challenges ” and „inter and trans-sectoral issues”. „Critical challenges”, according to this approach, are the „protect the environment ” and „protection of human development. ” The authors, in this article, they want to perform a statistical analyse to indicators at protecting the environment, so one of the most important directions of sustainable development. After that, they tries to find solutions to the most urgent environmental problems. JEL classification: C82, O1