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Sharing the Planet: From ‘Limits to Growth’ to ‘Factor Four’

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    This text was first published in a text for the Dutch association of the Club of Rome edited by Bob van der Zwaan and Arthur Petersen on: Sharing the Planet: Population-Consumption-Species; Sustainability of the Planet and International Politics: Looking for an Effective Global Governance (Delft: Eburon Publishers, 2003). The permission to republish this text was granted by Prof. Eric-Jan Tuininga on 24 February 2014.

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von Weizsäcker, E.U. (2014). Sharing the Planet: From ‘Limits to Growth’ to ‘Factor Four’. In: von Weizsäcker, E. (eds) Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03662-5_13

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