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Endnotes |
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Thailand is a country about twice the size of Wyoming, unique in Asia
for being neither colonized nor occupied during this century. A
middle-income country now, it achieved remarkably rapid
growth in the 1960s through the 1970s and again since the late 1980s.
Bangkok, with nearly 90 percent of Thailand's urban population, has
grown rapidly as the country has shifted from a high dependence on
agriculture to substantial industrial manufacturing and exporting.
Thailand's economic growth has coincided with a rapidly degraded
environment in and around Bangkok in particular, requiring immense
investment in environmental infrastructure. Impetus for ever cleaner
industrial production is being spurred by government policies favoring
industrial siting outside Bangkok, improving environmental
enforcement, rising public and community environmental awareness, and
increasing recognition of the global market pressures for better
industrial environmental management.
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