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In the previous chapter, we discussed sustainable development and environmental policy. Below we will relate sustainability to a different, but no less important policy area: the challenges facing Scandinavian societies when striving to sustain the fundamental principles of the welfare state in the decades to come.
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© 2013 Nik Brandal, Øivind Bratberg and Dag Einar Thorsen
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Brandal, N., Bratberg, Ø., Thorsen, D.E. (2013). The Sustainability of the Welfare State. In: The Nordic Model of Social Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137013279_9
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