New research centre to investigate 'nature of prosperity' in an age of environmental limits

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Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity will look at social and economic questions of how to prosper on a finite planet

A new UK research centre launched yesterday with plans to tackle the question of what prosperity means in an age of environmental and social limits. The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity...

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