Bangkok: Are Industries Generating a Sustainable City?
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Economic development is composed of processes of structural transformation such as industrialization and urbanization. Demonstrating Thailand's success in pursuing economic development is the increase in real GDP per capita from $985 in 1960 to $6,970 in 1990. However, this has not been without negative side effects, especially in the central node of the economy, Bangkok. Indeed, industrial pollution and urban environmental degradation are presently prominent features of Bangkok.
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