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STtandaridisation and sustainable development

Since the publication of » The limits to growth« as a report to the Club of Rome we know that we have to adapt to living according to a new development paradigm: Instead of unlimited economic growth which is appropriate for an open system with unlimited energy supply and natural resources we have to develop a strategy of living in a » growth limited society« . This is so since we are at the end of the » growth society« which started about 4000 years ago with the start of agriculture and about 200 years ago with the » industrial revolution« and we are for the first time in history reaching the ecological and other capacity limits of our planet. The realization of that is of a particular importance now when Europe is entering a new development cycle. This cycle is on one hand driven by demographic changes induced by an ageing population, globalization and the transfer of production to countries with cheaper labour force and on the other hand by informatics, biosciences and nanotechnology. The various possible scenarios of the future are shown and it is demonstrated that a sustainable development and/or survival scenario is achievable if certain conditions are met. Standardisation is important for sustainable development, because on one hand it assures quality of measured data on environment and indicators of sustainable development and on the other hand it helps in implementation of new environmentally friendly technologies.

Standardization ; environment

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