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The current environmental problems caused by industry stem from the accumulation of effects, which at some point in time appear to exceed the critical boundaries of the ecosystems. It is this cumulative effect, contributed to by the activities of a multiplicity of industrial plants, which is difficult to control and likely to place limits on future industrial development unless great attention is paid to the defining and achieving of economically and ecologically sustainable pathways.
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van Dijken, K. et al. (1999). Towards a heuristic model of adoption. In: Adoption of Environmental Innovations. Eco-Efficiency In Industry And Science, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0854-9_2
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