(introduction...)

Edited by
Fritjof Capra and Gunter Pauli (Eds.)

United Nations
University Press

TOKYO · NEW YORK · PARIS

© The United Nations University, 1995

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The cover photo shows a "living machine": a symbiotic association of algae and bacteria oxygenating the waste and degrading organic and toxic compounds. Photo by Dann Blackwood.

UNUP-909
ISBN 92-808-0909-1
02200 P