Controversies in Public Land Management Decision -Makings : Case Study of Land Utilization in Bangkok, Thailand (original) (raw)

The controversy after announcing an urban land policy has been found regularly. Most of them involved the diversity of needs and conflict directions of utilization. The problems of controversies in publicly owned land utilization is usually related to 'black box' 2 policy, inefficient decision-making, poor land management, poor coordination , ignorance of public land actors, politic, and market involvement (economic factors). The study focused on Thailand cases in these following issues; • The recent decision-making process in publicly own land. • Ad-hoc policy in public organizations and decision-making without the participation of all involved actors. • Publicly owned lands and potential alternatives of utilization. • Involved actors and their attitudes toward land utilization policies. Any publicly owned vacant land itself can be transformed into valuable public land, provides the equal opportunity of public services distributed through the districts. The surveys listed utilization examples and asked respondents to select the most preferred ones. The choices were referred to different directions to usually achieve the sustainable and sound urban land planning. The results from several analyses seemed to form major common patterns of directions and actors.