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In search of sustainability. What can we learn from the past?

Article | 19-09-2003

The last decade the words sustainability and sustainable development have gradually become a modern equivalent of and complement to the Declaration of Human Rights which inspired so many people shortly after the devastating second European World War. Respected high-level business and government people have embraced the concept and hailed it as the foremost challenge for the new (21st) century.

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Author(s)De Vries, B
Publication date19-09-2003
PublicationPaper for the International Symposium on "World System History and Global Environmental Change", Human Ecology Division, Lund University, Sweden