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Sustainable development is probably the key new paradigm on which to base policies for the future. However, so far the concept remains vague at best in many aspects, and in particular as regards the interaction of environmental, economic, and social politics. Based on some theoretical considerations this chapter defines minimum conditions for sustainable development. They provide criteria for assessing the suitability of different economic models for sustainability questions, as well as means to prove the sustainability of the scenarios presented in the remainder of the chapter.
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Spangenberg, J.H., Omann, I., Bockermann, A., Meyer, B. (2001). Modeling Sustainability — European and German Approaches. In: Matthies, M., Malchow, H., Kriz, J. (eds) Integrative Systems Approaches to Natural and Social Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56585-4_31
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