Governance for Sustainability
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Sustainable development is rapidly moving from the periphery to the mainstream of politics, business, and science. Over the past several years, a strong consensus has started to emerge that some major global problems can only be overcome through largescale concerted action. Recent additions to the debate include the reports by the International Panel on Climate Change, the Stern Report on the economics of climate change, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” and, perhaps less known, the Potsdam Memorandum. The latter pronouncement, recently presented by a broad group of Nobel laureates and entitled “The Great Transformation” pleads for fundamental changes in our economies and societies, asking,
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