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This shift is imperative for our welfare; it is feasible and its progress can be measured.
Daring to exploit emerging opportunities, using science and knowledge as drivers to uncouple revenue and wealth creation from resource throughput.1
‘If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves’
Thomas A. Edison
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See also: Stahel, W.R. (1997). The service economy: ‘wealth without resource consumption?’, Philosophical Transactions A, Royal Society London, 355 (June), 1309–1319.
Based on information by Prof. Charles P. Enz, University of Geneva. See also Enz, C.P. (1996). Review of the physics of high-temperature superconductors, in Zygmunt Petru et al. (eds) From Quantum Mechanics to Technology, pp. 143–160.
Hartmann, K.M., Goetz, S., Market, R., Kaufmann, T. and Schneider, K. (2003). ‘Photocontrol of weed germination: Lightless tillage and variable memory of the seed bank’, Aspects of Applied Biology, 69, 237–246, 2003.
Stahel, W.R. (1997). ‘The service economy: Wealth without resource consumption?’, Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society London, 355 (June), 1309–1319. The idea to uncouple economic success and resource consumption has since been integrated into the Marrakech declaration of the UNO.
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Stahel, W.R. (2010). Producing Performance. In: The Performance Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274907_2
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