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Technology as a Lever
Pages 3-6

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... By this, we mean technologies that utilize resources as efficiently as possible and minimize environmental harm while increasing industrial productivity and improving quality of life. Historically, new technologies have evolved in response to population and economic pressures and demands for increased safety, better health, more nutritious food, economic welfare, security, and a sound environment.
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... While the technology clearly exists, investment incentives are called for if these capital intensive processes are to replace less efficient ones in the developing world as well as in the developed world. To harness technologies for environmentally susta~nable development, effective national and multilateral economic policies and management strategies that have sustainability as their primary objective are needed.
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... and manage natural ecosystems. ~ encourage the participation of the private sector, markets need to be open ancl ~ntellec~al property must be protected.
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