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Managing Geo-Based Challenges

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Several major external (global climate change, global economics and geopolitics) and internal (regional governments’ national land policies, population growth and illegal settlements) factors are impacting negatively on developing nations and could become hindering factors for achieving sustainable development in the future.

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Baban, S.M.J. (2014). Sustainable Development Science and Management. In: Managing Geo-Based Challenges. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07380-4_6

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