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Shaping sustainable development to support human welfare

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Due to increased environmental awareness and social responsibility, social and human welfare have been increasingly viewed through the prism of sustainable development. As sustainable development is a highly multi-disciplinary field of research, a considerable number of studies have been devoted to this issue. The studies show that sustainable development has become an urgent task for the international community, academia, industry experts, policy makers and the general public, due to the rapidly growing social challenges of mankind. This review article provides a short assessment of the current state-of-the art papers related to sustainable development covered in the recent publications mostly originated from previous SDEWES conferences.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 5, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Hrvoje Mikulčić & Neven Duić

  2. Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Práter utca 50/a, 1083, Budapest, Hungary

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Mikulčić, H., Klemeš, J.J. & Duić, N. Shaping sustainable development to support human welfare. Clean Techn Environ Policy 18, 1633–1639 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-016-1269-x

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