**Meet the editor**

Daniel Bucur is currently a professor for Land Improvement at the University of Applied Life Sciences and Environment in Iasi, Romania. He completed his doctorate degree at the Technical University of Iasi in 1998. His major research areas include water excess removal, irrigation, soil erosion control, climate changes, and sustainable land management. In recent years, he has been

in charge of many national and international research projects, including *improving soil and water resource management in the Moldavian Plain*, *soil erosion and conservation measures*, *effect of sewage sludge application on quality indices of soil vulnerable to degradation*, *sustainable development of soil resources from the areas with drainage works*, and *impact of the hydroclimatic and pedo-geomorphological risks on the environment in small catchment*. He has published more than 150 papers in reviewed journals, 6 book chapters, and 11 books apart from more than 35 unreviewed papers and reports.
