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Sustainable manufacturing: trends and research challenges
Marco Garetti,Marco Taisch +1 more
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Sustainability is and will be a crucial issue for the present and future generations as discussed by the authors, from the economic, political, social, social and environmental points of view, and this is a very impressive objective embracing all fields of culture, economy, technology and much more.Abstract:
Sustainability is and will be a crucial issue for the present and future generations. The current assumption that natural resources are infinite and that the regenerative capacity of the environment is able to compensate for all human action is no longer acceptable. Hence, sustainability issues will influence all organisational aspects of the human life, from the economical, political, social and environmental points of view. The reason is simple: until now, all human activities have been based on the paradigm of unlimited resources and unlimited world's capacity for regeneration; from now on, the awareness of the termination of this assumption means that all related behavioural models must be changed. This is a very impressive objective embracing all fields of culture, economy, technology and much more. A continuing effort, together with a reasonable time span, will be required to pursue this goal. Fortunately, nature and the environment are capable of self-regulation and will give man a chance to recove...read more
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