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Long-term Stabilization of Steel Availability under Limited Resources

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Japan faces severe and complicated resources problems. The population reached its peak and decreases gradually. Now the domestic market has been saturated. The raw material prices have risen suddenly and the product values have been deflated. The present paper discusses the change in new boundary conditions for new paradigm of economic growth based on the large material stock and high material technology of steels.

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Nagai, K. (2011). Long-term Stabilization of Steel Availability under Limited Resources. In: Weng, Y., Dong, H., Gan, Y. (eds) Advanced Steels. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17665-4_9

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