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Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2013
In 2011, Thailand experienced serious damages by flood disaster. Flood damage around Bangkok is e... more In 2011, Thailand experienced serious damages by flood disaster. Flood damage around Bangkok is expected to increase dramatically due to rapid urbanization. Purpose of this study was to investigate determinants of elevation, flooded depth and period in an urbanizing area in Nonthaburi Province, the suburbs of Bangkok Metropolitan Region,Thailand. We used flood distribution maps in time series provided by GISTDA, Thailand and digital land-use database for 2003 and 2008 provided by Nonthaburi Province for overlay analysis using GIS. We also surveyed land level and flood depth in August 2012. Elevation and flood depth were closely related. The results showed that flood depth have been influenced by land filling in residential and road development. Determinants of flood period were East-west directions, land use types, and farmland size. Both flood depth and period were affected by the expansion of urban land uses with landfilling. Remaining large-size farmlands can store floodwater for longer period.
This article studies landscape change, a dynamic and natural phenomenon resulting from urban deve... more This article studies landscape change, a dynamic and natural phenomenon resulting from urban development. To explore and explain this phenomenon, this study will use the historical mapping and timeline method to concentrate on environmental characterization, both in anthropogenic areas and natural areas in the study area, Bang Chan, one of urban-rural interfaces or fringe areas facing rapid growth and urbanization.
WMS Journal of Management, 2017
The objectives of this study were to assess the economic value of cultural landscape conservation... more The objectives of this study were to assess the economic value of cultural landscape conservation for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges and to propose factors influencing willingness to pay by using the Contingent Valuation Method, and to investigate the sample’s attitudes towards cultural landscape for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges with the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), which was used to compare the attitudes, satisfaction, and awareness of cultural landscape conservation for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges. Data were collected from 400 local people. The results showed that for cultural landscape conservation for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges, the 400 samples had willingness to pay at on average 614.41 baht/household/year. Total economic value was 5,503,890.94 baht/year. Factors influencing willingness to pay in positive correlation included education level, monthly income, expense, satisfaction with River Edges, and awareness of cultural landscape conservation but the expense is the fac...
The transport of chemical waste from industrial site to disposal site is an aspect of the waste l... more The transport of chemical waste from industrial site to disposal site is an aspect of the waste life cycle, which is composed of production, storage, transport and recycling or final disposal activities. Traditionally, majority of waste life cycle researches were focus on locating treatment and disp osal facilities and limited attention has paid to risk during transport phase. An accident during waste transport can cause relatively high impact to stakeholders involve; government, businesses and society in term of risk posed by the toxic nature of hazardous waste. Building a comprehensive decision making framework is therefore a main goal of hazardous waste transport problem. The concept of sustainability can broader a goal of hazardous waste transport that economic should not be solely considered as a major factor in hazardous waste transport, social welfare in term of safety of and environmental risk should be concerned and incorporated into every stages of decision making process....
Urban Ecosystems, 2017
This study examined the spatial relationships between various types of wetland and the distributi... more This study examined the spatial relationships between various types of wetland and the distribution of Asian openbills (Anastomus oscitans) as an indicator species in a peri-urban industrial area of Bangkok. We (1) mapped the study area by using a time series of aerial photographs combined with field validations, (2) conducted a 2-year line census of Asian openbills in the field, (3) interviewed local farmers and residents about Asian openbill populations and spatial distributions, and (4) conducted an overlay analysis to statistically identify land-use factors related to spatiotemporal changes in the Asian openbill population and distribution. We found that the number of ponds increased from 1980 to 1999 and then decreased from 1999 to 2010, but the remaining ponds were relatively temporally stable in their numbers and volumes. Paddy fields were primarily replaced by aquaculture ponds, and excavated soil was used as fill in adjoining built-up areas. The number of coconut, banana, mango and other trees planted around the ponds increased during the period, providing Asian openbill habitat. The openbills fed in the remaining paddy fields, and the simultaneous existence of various rice cultivation stages in the area provided a stable year-round source of food. Overall, the results indicated that this expanding urban-rural mosaic landscape could include further spatial distribution of Asian openbills in the future. This study of Asian openbills reveals just one example of the ecosystem services provided by developments creating pond-fill landscapes, and the methods used may be applicable in other similar continental delta regions.
Urban Planning, 2017
This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid developme... more This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid development of Chiang Mai, Thailand over the last four decades. Modern urbanization since the 1980s in the previously remote Chiang Mai-Lamphun Valley has coincided with digital and financial globalization, neo-liberal governance, and the articulation of a new geological era of the Anthropocene based on evidence of human induced climate change. This time frame serves as a lens to theorize the architecture of the “metacity”, a new urban form and new form of urban practice responding to the demands of global digital financial networks and neo-liberal trade policies, but grounded in the ecology and life worlds of particular localities. The metacity appears in Chiang Mai within the interstices of a particularly fragmented rural/urban mix within a self-organized rather than plan-controlled built environment. The entire valley has been the site of intensive inhabitation for centuries, and recently urba...
Places, 2008
Title: Mitigation, Adaptation, Uncertainty -- Changing Landscape, Changing Climate: Bangkok and t... more Title: Mitigation, Adaptation, Uncertainty -- Changing Landscape, Changing Climate: Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River Delta ... Publication Info: Places, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley ... Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wn1t6sx
Science for Sustainable Societies, 2017
ABSTRACT The urban hydro-agricultural complex of the Chao Phraya River Delta was radically transf... more ABSTRACT The urban hydro-agricultural complex of the Chao Phraya River Delta was radically transformed as a result of Bangkok's rapid and expansive urbanization over the last fifty years. While the delta and the city are now in conflict, they were once entangled in a highly resilient absorbent agricultural matrix in concert with climatic cycles of monsoon and dry seasons. Urban planning and design education and research can begin to address the pressing need of adaptation to urbanization in this mega-city through a careful reexamination of the evidence of the resilient performative capacity of this delta city's past through systematic archival, remote sensing and field observation. Understanding of historical resilience and adaptation of living with water evident in indigenous and traditional processes are crucial in land and waterscape planning and design for the Chao Phraya delta's city region future.
Urban and Regional Planning Review
Rapid urbanization has taken place in Southeast Asian megacities located in the lower river delta... more Rapid urbanization has taken place in Southeast Asian megacities located in the lower river delta basins, and a mixed urban-rural land use is being adopted in the urban fringes. Industrial land uses in particular are being mixed with farmlands, including paddy fields and orchards. Urban suburbs, 30-35 km east of central Bangkok, now face the risk of floods and droughts. Therefore, adaptive land and water management is urgently needed. This research focuses on paddy fields as spaces for water regulation and local water management activities against floods and droughts around Lat Krabang industrial estate. The research consists of two parts: 1) spatial analysis using GIS to analyze the appropriate land use arrangement of wetlands that have high resilience to floods and droughts, and 2) hearing survey of rice farmers and other stakeholders on their awareness of future land development and collaborative water management scenarios. We digitized the land use change in the area that had paddy fields to the west of the industrial estate. In this region, adjustment ponds and abandoned areas increased as parts of the waterway disappeared. It is assumed that the farming type changed because of the fragmentation of the waterway and the increase in adjustment ponds. We also interviewed 39 rice farmers, the site managers of the water management company "GUSCO," and the person in charge at the local government's agricultural office. The awareness analysis concerning future scenarios indicated that most rice farmers recognize the importance of paddy field conservation, and many of them who were affected by floods and droughts tend to view the large-scale adjustment pond scenario as meaningless. Furthermore, there is a possibility of GUSCO playing the role of a coordinator for cooperative water management among stakeholders. Based on the spatial analysis, it can be assumed that the current scenario of rice farming is affected by natural land use change and the inner structure of paddy fields. Analyses of the relationship between area ratios of paddy fields and adjustment ponds by current drainage types indicated that both ratios are low in the areas with nature drainage than in the areas with only pump drainage. Furthermore, it can be assumed that rice farmers find it easy to control water intake and drainage with small-scale paddy fields. The rice farmers who have been affected by floods are converged in areas with a higher ratio of adjustment ponds, which can be an adaptation measure against drought. It is suggested that a sufficient number of small-scale adjustment ponds connected to paddy fields can be an important protection measure against floods and droughts.
This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid developme... more This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid development of Chiang Mai, Thailand over the last four decades. Modern urbanization since the 1980s in the previously remote Chiang Mai-Lamphun Valley has coincided with digital and financial globalization, neo-liberal governance, and the articulation of a new geological era of the Anthropocene based on evidence of human induced climate change. This time frame serves as a lens to theorize the architecture of the " metacity " , a new urban form and new form of urban practice responding to the demands of global digital financial networks and neo-liberal trade policies, but grounded in the ecology and life worlds of particular localities. The metacity appears in Chiang Mai within the interstices of a particularly fragmented rural/urban mix within a self-organized rather than plan-controlled built environment. The entire valley has been the site of intensive inhabitation for centuries, and recently urbanized, yet is spatially heterogeneous, extensive and patchy rather than ordered, bounded and uniform. The resulting landscape is marked by a disjunction between a feudal wet-rice cultivation land tenure structure overlaid with a market-based typology of urban real estate products with little enforcement of land use controls. The essay begins with theorizing the form of the metacity, continues with a description of the Chiang Mai case study, and concludes with a general assessment of the need to create a new form of metacity urban practice. A metacity design practice would re-conceptualize urban theories and forms by inking architectural and ecological thinking with inclusive social practices, enhanced by new digitally-enhanced urban imaginaries and new representational tools of mapping, modeling and design.
Thischapter fuses scientificecologicalresearchinBaltimorewithethnographicevidence of humanecologi... more Thischapter
fuses scientificecologicalresearchinBaltimorewithethnographicevidence
of humanecologicaltechnologiespracticedinNorthernThailand.
Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability, 2007
Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, 2010
Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2013
In 2011, Thailand experienced serious damages by flood disaster. Flood damage around Bangkok is e... more In 2011, Thailand experienced serious damages by flood disaster. Flood damage around Bangkok is expected to increase dramatically due to rapid urbanization. Purpose of this study was to investigate determinants of elevation, flooded depth and period in an urbanizing area in Nonthaburi Province, the suburbs of Bangkok Metropolitan Region,Thailand. We used flood distribution maps in time series provided by GISTDA, Thailand and digital land-use database for 2003 and 2008 provided by Nonthaburi Province for overlay analysis using GIS. We also surveyed land level and flood depth in August 2012. Elevation and flood depth were closely related. The results showed that flood depth have been influenced by land filling in residential and road development. Determinants of flood period were East-west directions, land use types, and farmland size. Both flood depth and period were affected by the expansion of urban land uses with landfilling. Remaining large-size farmlands can store floodwater for longer period.
This article studies landscape change, a dynamic and natural phenomenon resulting from urban deve... more This article studies landscape change, a dynamic and natural phenomenon resulting from urban development. To explore and explain this phenomenon, this study will use the historical mapping and timeline method to concentrate on environmental characterization, both in anthropogenic areas and natural areas in the study area, Bang Chan, one of urban-rural interfaces or fringe areas facing rapid growth and urbanization.
WMS Journal of Management, 2017
The objectives of this study were to assess the economic value of cultural landscape conservation... more The objectives of this study were to assess the economic value of cultural landscape conservation for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges and to propose factors influencing willingness to pay by using the Contingent Valuation Method, and to investigate the sample’s attitudes towards cultural landscape for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges with the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), which was used to compare the attitudes, satisfaction, and awareness of cultural landscape conservation for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges. Data were collected from 400 local people. The results showed that for cultural landscape conservation for Muang Uthai Thani River Edges, the 400 samples had willingness to pay at on average 614.41 baht/household/year. Total economic value was 5,503,890.94 baht/year. Factors influencing willingness to pay in positive correlation included education level, monthly income, expense, satisfaction with River Edges, and awareness of cultural landscape conservation but the expense is the fac...
The transport of chemical waste from industrial site to disposal site is an aspect of the waste l... more The transport of chemical waste from industrial site to disposal site is an aspect of the waste life cycle, which is composed of production, storage, transport and recycling or final disposal activities. Traditionally, majority of waste life cycle researches were focus on locating treatment and disp osal facilities and limited attention has paid to risk during transport phase. An accident during waste transport can cause relatively high impact to stakeholders involve; government, businesses and society in term of risk posed by the toxic nature of hazardous waste. Building a comprehensive decision making framework is therefore a main goal of hazardous waste transport problem. The concept of sustainability can broader a goal of hazardous waste transport that economic should not be solely considered as a major factor in hazardous waste transport, social welfare in term of safety of and environmental risk should be concerned and incorporated into every stages of decision making process....
Urban Ecosystems, 2017
This study examined the spatial relationships between various types of wetland and the distributi... more This study examined the spatial relationships between various types of wetland and the distribution of Asian openbills (Anastomus oscitans) as an indicator species in a peri-urban industrial area of Bangkok. We (1) mapped the study area by using a time series of aerial photographs combined with field validations, (2) conducted a 2-year line census of Asian openbills in the field, (3) interviewed local farmers and residents about Asian openbill populations and spatial distributions, and (4) conducted an overlay analysis to statistically identify land-use factors related to spatiotemporal changes in the Asian openbill population and distribution. We found that the number of ponds increased from 1980 to 1999 and then decreased from 1999 to 2010, but the remaining ponds were relatively temporally stable in their numbers and volumes. Paddy fields were primarily replaced by aquaculture ponds, and excavated soil was used as fill in adjoining built-up areas. The number of coconut, banana, mango and other trees planted around the ponds increased during the period, providing Asian openbill habitat. The openbills fed in the remaining paddy fields, and the simultaneous existence of various rice cultivation stages in the area provided a stable year-round source of food. Overall, the results indicated that this expanding urban-rural mosaic landscape could include further spatial distribution of Asian openbills in the future. This study of Asian openbills reveals just one example of the ecosystem services provided by developments creating pond-fill landscapes, and the methods used may be applicable in other similar continental delta regions.
Urban Planning, 2017
This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid developme... more This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid development of Chiang Mai, Thailand over the last four decades. Modern urbanization since the 1980s in the previously remote Chiang Mai-Lamphun Valley has coincided with digital and financial globalization, neo-liberal governance, and the articulation of a new geological era of the Anthropocene based on evidence of human induced climate change. This time frame serves as a lens to theorize the architecture of the “metacity”, a new urban form and new form of urban practice responding to the demands of global digital financial networks and neo-liberal trade policies, but grounded in the ecology and life worlds of particular localities. The metacity appears in Chiang Mai within the interstices of a particularly fragmented rural/urban mix within a self-organized rather than plan-controlled built environment. The entire valley has been the site of intensive inhabitation for centuries, and recently urba...
Places, 2008
Title: Mitigation, Adaptation, Uncertainty -- Changing Landscape, Changing Climate: Bangkok and t... more Title: Mitigation, Adaptation, Uncertainty -- Changing Landscape, Changing Climate: Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River Delta ... Publication Info: Places, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley ... Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wn1t6sx
Science for Sustainable Societies, 2017
ABSTRACT The urban hydro-agricultural complex of the Chao Phraya River Delta was radically transf... more ABSTRACT The urban hydro-agricultural complex of the Chao Phraya River Delta was radically transformed as a result of Bangkok's rapid and expansive urbanization over the last fifty years. While the delta and the city are now in conflict, they were once entangled in a highly resilient absorbent agricultural matrix in concert with climatic cycles of monsoon and dry seasons. Urban planning and design education and research can begin to address the pressing need of adaptation to urbanization in this mega-city through a careful reexamination of the evidence of the resilient performative capacity of this delta city's past through systematic archival, remote sensing and field observation. Understanding of historical resilience and adaptation of living with water evident in indigenous and traditional processes are crucial in land and waterscape planning and design for the Chao Phraya delta's city region future.
Urban and Regional Planning Review
Rapid urbanization has taken place in Southeast Asian megacities located in the lower river delta... more Rapid urbanization has taken place in Southeast Asian megacities located in the lower river delta basins, and a mixed urban-rural land use is being adopted in the urban fringes. Industrial land uses in particular are being mixed with farmlands, including paddy fields and orchards. Urban suburbs, 30-35 km east of central Bangkok, now face the risk of floods and droughts. Therefore, adaptive land and water management is urgently needed. This research focuses on paddy fields as spaces for water regulation and local water management activities against floods and droughts around Lat Krabang industrial estate. The research consists of two parts: 1) spatial analysis using GIS to analyze the appropriate land use arrangement of wetlands that have high resilience to floods and droughts, and 2) hearing survey of rice farmers and other stakeholders on their awareness of future land development and collaborative water management scenarios. We digitized the land use change in the area that had paddy fields to the west of the industrial estate. In this region, adjustment ponds and abandoned areas increased as parts of the waterway disappeared. It is assumed that the farming type changed because of the fragmentation of the waterway and the increase in adjustment ponds. We also interviewed 39 rice farmers, the site managers of the water management company "GUSCO," and the person in charge at the local government's agricultural office. The awareness analysis concerning future scenarios indicated that most rice farmers recognize the importance of paddy field conservation, and many of them who were affected by floods and droughts tend to view the large-scale adjustment pond scenario as meaningless. Furthermore, there is a possibility of GUSCO playing the role of a coordinator for cooperative water management among stakeholders. Based on the spatial analysis, it can be assumed that the current scenario of rice farming is affected by natural land use change and the inner structure of paddy fields. Analyses of the relationship between area ratios of paddy fields and adjustment ponds by current drainage types indicated that both ratios are low in the areas with nature drainage than in the areas with only pump drainage. Furthermore, it can be assumed that rice farmers find it easy to control water intake and drainage with small-scale paddy fields. The rice farmers who have been affected by floods are converged in areas with a higher ratio of adjustment ponds, which can be an adaptation measure against drought. It is suggested that a sufficient number of small-scale adjustment ponds connected to paddy fields can be an important protection measure against floods and droughts.
This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid developme... more This essay analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics which have emerged from the rapid development of Chiang Mai, Thailand over the last four decades. Modern urbanization since the 1980s in the previously remote Chiang Mai-Lamphun Valley has coincided with digital and financial globalization, neo-liberal governance, and the articulation of a new geological era of the Anthropocene based on evidence of human induced climate change. This time frame serves as a lens to theorize the architecture of the " metacity " , a new urban form and new form of urban practice responding to the demands of global digital financial networks and neo-liberal trade policies, but grounded in the ecology and life worlds of particular localities. The metacity appears in Chiang Mai within the interstices of a particularly fragmented rural/urban mix within a self-organized rather than plan-controlled built environment. The entire valley has been the site of intensive inhabitation for centuries, and recently urbanized, yet is spatially heterogeneous, extensive and patchy rather than ordered, bounded and uniform. The resulting landscape is marked by a disjunction between a feudal wet-rice cultivation land tenure structure overlaid with a market-based typology of urban real estate products with little enforcement of land use controls. The essay begins with theorizing the form of the metacity, continues with a description of the Chiang Mai case study, and concludes with a general assessment of the need to create a new form of metacity urban practice. A metacity design practice would re-conceptualize urban theories and forms by inking architectural and ecological thinking with inclusive social practices, enhanced by new digitally-enhanced urban imaginaries and new representational tools of mapping, modeling and design.
Thischapter fuses scientificecologicalresearchinBaltimorewithethnographicevidence of humanecologi... more Thischapter
fuses scientificecologicalresearchinBaltimorewithethnographicevidence
of humanecologicaltechnologiespracticedinNorthernThailand.
Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability, 2007
Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, 2010
The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt in the urban world in which we live. Hu... more The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt in the urban world in which we live. Humans have lived with their natural environments, which are often shaped by hydro-ecological systems. For millennia, locally-evolved, traditional practices of designing, planning and building human settlements have helped people to live in harmony with their natural environment, giving rise to unique cultural landscapes. These human settlement practices constitute a repository of indigenous knowledge, which, as shown in the illustrated case of “waterscape habitats” in Thailand, can help shape climate change adaptation measures. Based on fieldwork in Ayutthaya, Bangkok, Nontha Buri and Suphan Buri Provinces, this paper argues that “waterscape habitats” show a unique way in which human settlements can adapt to the worsening natural disaster risks and impacts of climate change, such as the massive floods that affected lives, livelihoods and human settlements in Thailand in late-2011.
Thailand experienced its worst floods in over 50 years in October and November 2011. But locally-... more Thailand experienced its worst floods in over 50 years in October and November 2011. But locally-evolved, traditional practices of designing, planning and building human settlements proved their resilience. The paper explains how Thailand’s cities and villages live within a waterscape and are well adapted to climate change.