By Hiroshi Komiyama
Filled with clean insights into the opportunity of constructing sustainable economies, this ebook incorporates a bankruptcy on 'platinum' societies and indicates how shoppers' call for for caliber will foster sustainable applied sciences in built, and constructing, international locations.
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