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Sustainable production and products are prerequisite for the realization of a sustainable society. The term “sustainable” connotes keeping up with the present state for a long time. In order to be sustainable, resources must be available and current environmental quality should be preserved. From this, one can extract key concept about sustainability. They are: sustainable resource supply and stable environmental quality.
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Lee, KM. (2013). Sustainable Products and Sustainable Production: Introduction. In: Kauffman, J., Lee, KM. (eds) Handbook of Sustainable Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8939-8_127
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