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We live in a period of such rapid change that the past and the future are hardly on speaking terms. In the preceding chapters, distinguished leaders from around the, world have documented a sudden acceleration of interrelated events on several fronts simultaneously — the economic, the ecological and the political. This is forcing profound changes in the relationships between peoples, nations and governments, and changes in the way we view and think about the management of the planet as a whole.
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MacNeill, J. (1990). Sustainable Development: Meeting the Growth Imperative for the 21st Century. In: Angell, D.J.R., Comer, J.D., Wilkinson, M.L.N. (eds) Sustaining Earth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21091-6_17
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