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The sustainable consumption and production (SCP) agenda has been a hypernym for various efforts and approaches to address the growing concerns on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas.

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Bali Swain, R., Sweet, S. (2021). Introduction to Sustainable Consumption and Production Challenges and Development. In: Bali Swain, R., Sweet, S. (eds) Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4_1

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