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Emerging issues are a major consideration in economic sustainability. They must be taken into account when discussing sustainability or sustainable development in designing a manufacturing enterprise. In this chapter, we will focus on some of the most important emerging issues in relation to manufacturing and sustainability, concentrating on developing related concepts, and analyzing manufacturing enterprises.
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Garbie, I. (2016). Emerging Issues. In: Sustainability in Manufacturing Enterprises. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29306-6_3
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