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Understanding the environment

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The World Environment 1972–1992

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More than two million papers are published every year in science (including medicine). This is a twentyfold increase since 1940, and the number of papers is increasing (Bussard, 1990). Assessing such a massive output over a twenty-year period is quite impossible. However, there is no doubt that understanding in all branches of science deepened tremendously between 1972 and 1992. This is particularly true in the environmental field.

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