Why Sustainability?
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Abstract Over the past 30 years, sustainable development has become central term worldwide in discussions about future of humanity and planet Earth. The struggle to define what really means how achieve it, a theme national international politics, science, increasingly also business civil society. But why concept many disparate debates across world? In this chapter we discuss biggest social environmental challenges facing world today basic processes, causes, effects climate change.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SpringerBriefs in business
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2191-5482', '2191-5490']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25397-3_1