Sustainable Environment: Balancing Growth with the Environment

Sustainable Environment: Balancing Growth with the Environment

Sustainable Environment: Balancing Growth with the Environment traces the evolution of the complementary yet complex interrelationships between Singapore’s environmental policies and the changing economic landscape. Industrialisation has driven the engine of Singapore’s remarkable economic transformation since it gained internal self-government. This economic growth is balanced with sound environmental policies since the early days, endowing it with reliable environmental systems and practices

Priorities in environmental policies changed in tandem with economic development as new types of pollution emerge and technology advances. These include basic public health and vector control to attract foreign investment and create high quality living environment; pollution control when industrialisation peaks; chemical pollution control due to the rise in the petrochemical and chemical industries; and eventually pollution prevention and resource efficiency to sustain Singapore’s development and meet global environmental standards.