Sustainable Development and Strategic Thinking

From an economic point of view, the industrial economy is efficient to overcome situations of a scarcity of goods. From a technological point of view, the resource efficiency of the manufacturing processes of the industrial economy has been permanently improved during the last 200 years. In addition, cleaner processes have been developed. However, from an ecologic point of view, an increasing world population with increasing consumption has produced a ＂global footprint＂ which approaches the carrying capacity of the planet. A circular economy and its high-value spin-offs-a lake economy and a performance or functional service economy-can fulfil customers＇ needs with considerably less resource consumption, less environmental impairment in production and considerably less end-of-life product waste, especially in situations of affluence, when a considerable stock of physical goods and infrastructures exists. Also, in situations of a scarcity of natural resources, both energy and materials, often characterised by rapidly rising resource prices, the economic actors of a circular economy have a high competitive advantage over the actors of the industrial economy, due to much lower procurement costs for materials and energy. From a social point of view, a circular economy increases the number of skilled jobs in regional enterprises. However, the shift from a linear manufacturing economy to a circular or service economy means a change in economic thinking from flow （throughput） management to stock （asset） management： in a manufacturing economy with largely unsaturated markets, total wealth increases through accumulation as resource throughput （flow） is transformed into a higher stock of goods of better quality （but in a manufacturing economy with largely saturated markets, wealth represented by the stock of goods will no longer increase）; in a circular or service economy, total wealth increases through a smart management of existing physical assets （stock） that are adapted to changes in both technology and customer demand. This second approach not only applies to physical capital but equally to social capital, such as health and education and green GDP. To measure the social wealth of a population, it is not the amount of money spent on schools and hospitals that matters, butif this expenditure has led to a better education of the students, and a better health of the people.     

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张家港市位于长江下游南岸,作为一个新兴工业城市,近年来,张家港的建设项目如火如荼。支柱产业有冶金、纺织、化工等,其中很多企业都存在严重的职业病危害。张家港市卫生部门从源头下手,重点     

孩子的灵气哪里去了?

现在大家都在讨论教育改革，在谈论如何将我们的教育从以前的应试教育转变到素质教育上来。然而，大家都没有办到。所有的老师和学生都在“努力考试，然后教下一代如何考试”，至于考试之外的东西．弄没弄得懂、需不需要知道是无关紧要的。有人说．这样的教育是在浪费公民的时间、青春和生命，话也许偏激．但却不无道理。我们的教育确实存在许多问题．改变这一现状需要我们搞教育的人士认认真真地研究一下教育．需要我们的老师们重视自身素质和修养的提高：这，也就是我们设置“关注”这一栏目的初衷之一、我们期待着更多的有识之士来参与我们的话题、挖掘我们的话题，引起更多的思考与更多的关注．     

全国安全生产宣传工作会议:张宝明局长谈今年工作总体思路

3月底全国安全生产宣传工作会议在北京西郊宾馆举行。这是国家安全生产监督管理体制改革以来,召开的第一次安全生产宣传工作会议。国家     

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