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Time to stop celebrating the polluters

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  • Chuluun Togtokh

    (Chuluun Togtokh is a professor of ecosystem and sustainability sciences at the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar and vice-chair of Mongolia's Global Change National Committee.)

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The United Nations must include sustainability in its quality-of-life index to encourage countries to develop responsibly, says Chuluun Togtokh.

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  • Chuluun Togtokh, 2011. "Time to stop celebrating the polluters," Nature, Nature, vol. 479(7373), pages 269-269, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:479:y:2011:i:7373:d:10.1038_479269a
    DOI: 10.1038/479269a
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    8. Shiyin Chen & Qingxu Huang & Ziwen Liu & Shiting Meng & Dan Yin & Lei Zhu & Chunyang He, 2019. "Assessing the Regional Sustainability of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration from 2000 to 2015 Using the Human Sustainable Development Index," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-17, June.
    9. Umberto Lucia & Giulia Grisolia, 2021. "The Gouy-Stodola Theorem—From Irreversibility to Sustainability—The Thermodynamic Human Development Index," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-13, April.
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    13. Comim, Flavio & Hirai, Tadashi, 2022. "Sustainability and Human Development Indicators: A Poset Analysis," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).

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