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Following the success of an export-led growth policy during the 1970s and 1980s, the Korean environment began to face significant deterioration in the 1990s, due to a combination of rapid industrialization, population growth and urbanization. As in the past Korea had to pursue its economic development without a sufficient endowment of natural resources and technological accumulation, environmental concerns were not considered a priority in economic policy.
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Kim, SW., Van Tongeren, J., Alfieri, A. (1998). Republic of Korea: SEEA pilot compilation. In: Uno, K., Bartelmus, P. (eds) Environmental Accounting in Theory and Practice. Economy & Environment, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1433-4_4
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