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The process of industrialisation in the last 200 years has transformed our societies to an extent and with a speed which has never been known in the history of humankind before. On the one hand, economic growth and wealth have been the outcome as well as the driving force of new products and production processes, but on the other hand the natural foundations of life are increasingly challenged.
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Weber, K.M. (1999). Introduction. In: Innovation Diffusion and Political Control of Energy Technologies. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58657-6_1
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