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For the last decades, the economies of many industrialised countries have been characterised by a combination of continuously high resource consumption with related high waste volumes, of rising public debt often accompanied by persistent unemployment and slow economic growth.
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See also: Stahel, W.R. (2001). From ‘design for environment’ to ‘designing sustainable solutions’; in M.K. Tolba (ed.) Our Fragile World: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, Forerunner to the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO and EOLSS Editors, Cambridge UK, pp. 1553–1568.
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Stahel, W.R. (2010). Introduction. In: The Performance Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288843_1
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