Nowadays, the air pollution has become a major environmental problem due to rapid increase of industrialization and anthropogenic activities which led to climate change. Air pollution is considered as a harmful agent for human health. Different classes of gaseous pollutants (SOx, NOx) are continuously released in air and perceived/recognized as pollutants. Among the biological models, plants could give us information related with pollution range in a monitored area, analyzing injuries caused on the leaves surfaces. The aim of this study was to identify and select certain species of plants for using them in experimental biomonitoring studies. An experimental fumigation system with a closed fumigation glasshouses maintained under defined conditions with environmental control and pollutant delivery was used to study the effects of air pollution on plants species. The relative degrees of injury as a response of plants to pollutants fumigation were assessed. Considering the sensitiveness degree to pollutants, the indigenous tobacco Nicotiana rustica proved to be the most sensitive followed by cultivated tobacco Nicotiana tabacum and least sensitive Petunia hibrida. Future researches will focus on field biomonitoring.

Air pollution is a serious problem in many heavily populated and industrialized areas in the world. It affects vegetation, and also human health. The diversification of emission sources, among them vehicles, industrial processes, waste burnings and fuel storage, creates zones with different species and concentrations of air pollutants. In this paper was studied the excessive accumulation of toxic metals such as Al, Cr, Ni, Zn, Pb in vegetation as a risk factor for ecosystem and also for human health. The purpose of the study was to establish an optimal method of determination for toxic elements accumulation in leaves, using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). These results made to suppose that, visible and analyzed responses of in in-situ exposed bio monitors compared with heavy metal accumulation depended on the atmospheric situation during the period of exposure, which could assess the efficiency of biomonitoring programs in the region. The advantage of this study consists in new and appropriate approach using a friendly methodology for air monitoring and favoring the development of a circular and sustainable economy.

In the last decades, the national and international reality is faced with multiple problems like the limited nature of natural resources, demographic growth, environmental deterioration, proliferation of conflicts between nations, increasing gaps between poor countries and rich countries, etc. Due to their regional and universal dimensions, these aspects constitute a complex phenomenon generically named "the problem of the contemporary world". This concept was introduced by the Club of Rome, founded in 1968 under the leadership of A. Peccei, as an institution that brings together specialists from all over the world concerned with the evolution and the destiny of people globally. Naturally, educational systems must respond to the demands of these realities and the challenges launched by the social space. The specific conservatism of educational systems, however, causes them to lag behind in relation to social demands, which generates a very uncomfortable phenomenon, identified in the education crisis. These causes are diverse and obvious, including currently at the level of education systems. The proposed solutions for solving the world education crisis fall under several directions of socio-pedagogical action.

Human activities have led to environmental pollution, while industrial growth and the gradual transition to urbanization are the main causes of the growth of different types of environmental pollutants; the continuation of studies on air quality biomonitoring in the context of “green revolution” have renewed the way to use “green tools” using higher plants with specific capabilities as biomonitors.

In the context of the multiple economic crises, the degradation of the quality of life in correlation with the environment are intensely debated topics in the current international policy. Thus, the concept of “Green Economy” was developed as an answer and as a solution to these pressing problems. The development of this concept has taken into account an economic revolution by integrating the environmental factors that will have to be taken into account in any political decision, in a joint international effort. By implementing this concept, the previous term “sustainable economy” will be developed through economic policies that make the economy more efficient, taking full account of climate change, the health and wellbeing of the population in the medium and long term. This study follows an overview of the concept of “Green Economy” and how it could be integrated into the Romanian context.

In the development of this study, we have considered the suggestion of some facilities to encourage the research-development-innovation activity within government institutions, universities and high-profile companies, as they also benefit from being able to self-finance their activity and, therefore, they need an insurance as well as an incentive to further encourage efforts and investments which can produce valuable results and applicable concepts. As a facilitator of the development of this paradigm, this can go from concept to practice with the aid of governmental policies and fiscal facilities for investments in creative fields, such as: exemptions from the tax on profit when the profit is (re)invested in creative activities for any type of public or private institution; exemption from corporate income tax for creative and/or newly established businesses for a certain period of time. Thus, the role of research in the field of economics could be reoriented by rethinking the basic principles in order to create a link between the economy and the environment. During the study, a report with case studies is presented aiming to find another approach that will support economic progress not to the detriment but in favour of the environment.