Recurring inquiries prompted the decision in 2006 by publishers new and old to reissue "Sustainable Germany". From the outset it was clear that this meant another liaison between development and environmental policy.
Based on new data it shall once again pose the question as to the meaning of sustainability for an industrialized country with international responsibility.
Yet the new study is also a reaction to current undesirable developments, to the increasing demands made on the idea of sustainability and the tendencies to repeat the familiar mistakes made by industrialized countries elsewhere in the world.
At the same time the study encourages active participation and will prove how easy it is to act in a sustainable manner.
