Abstract:

In order to explain the complex relations between environment and economy, there has been intense efforts in recent years. Some of these efforts aim to reveal the change, which occurs upon income and environment as a result of the economic activities. Demonsrating the enviromental degradation as a result at production and comsumption and concentration of particulate matter, which is one of the parameters of air pollution has a relation with GDP per capita, which is one of economic indicators, and this relation is inevitable. In this respect in the study, on the basis of cities in Turkey, using the particuler matter concentrations with the istatistics of per capita income of these cities, cities are clustered and relationship between per capita income with the particuler matter concentrations are determined on the basis of the cities.

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