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Structural change, the rise and decline of industries, is a vital characteristic of economic development and growth. New “sunrise” industries emerge while older “sunset” industries lose their former importance. From the point of view of environmental policy and sustainable development, structural change has become an important issue: “green industrial restructuring” at the expense of “dirty industries”, with their high consumption of energy and raw materials, is now seen to be necessary, but is likely to cause social and economic problems and could also be blocked by vested interests. It is therefore crucial to analyse the forces behind environmentally friendly industrial change and of the possibilities of a respective industrial policy.
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Binder, M., Jänicke, M., Petschow, U., Jacob, K., Nill, J. (2001). Introduction. In: Binder, M., Jänicke, M., Petschow, U. (eds) Green Industrial Restructuring. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04419-3_1
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