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Green Growth Policy, De-Growth, and Sustainability: The Alternative Solution for Achieving the Balance between Both the Natural and the Economic System

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  • Diego A. Vazquez-Brust

    (Portsmouth Faculty of Business and Law, Richmond Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth P01 3DE, UK
    Production Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis 88040-900, SC, Brazil)

  • José A. Plaza-Úbeda

    (Economics and Business Department, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain)

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“ We are ethically obliged and incited to think beyond what are treated as the realistic limits of the possible ” [...]

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  • Diego A. Vazquez-Brust & José A. Plaza-Úbeda, 2021. "Green Growth Policy, De-Growth, and Sustainability: The Alternative Solution for Achieving the Balance between Both the Natural and the Economic System," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-10, April.
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