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latter being regarded as unrealistic in the long term (see also Setzman, 2014). In comparison to its American counterparts, the Nordic report, detached from a definite repository, mainly stays on a generic, theoretical level, and perhaps also due to that reason lacks some of the appeals to the imagination and creativity so abundantly present throughout the US reports.

Overall, the lessons from the historical review shaped the RK&M initiative’s outline as follows: refraining from futurology, yet encouraging long-term and creative thinking; focusing RK&M preservation efforts on informing, not on scaring future generations; and combining thorough, multidisciplinary theoretical reflections with a systemic identification of various actual mechanisms for practicable implementation.

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