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Pollution prevention and environmental management systems — tools to obtain a sustainable development

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The adverse environmental impacts of rapid economic development issued a warning that the developing countries face grave environmental dangers if they emulated the current economic model of the developed world. This model, which has been consuming natural resources at an ever-increasing rate, is not sustainable.

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Nitica, V.T.P., Gheorghievici, V. (2004). Pollution prevention and environmental management systems — tools to obtain a sustainable development. In: Sikdar, S.K., Glavič, P., Jain, R. (eds) Technological Choices for Sustainability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10270-1_13

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