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Over the past two decades there have been a number of changes in Thailand, changes in the environment and quality of life for its people, changes in its communities and in the foundations of its economy. Before 1970, Thailand was a rural society in which local communities depended on the natural resources which surrounded them, and the national economy relied on the export of native crops. The sustainable...