Author: Awais Latif Piracha
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss no. HS-01-01
Year: 2001
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology
Examination Committee: Willi Zimmerman (Chairperson); Hans Detlef Kammeier, H. Morishita, Suphat Vongvisessomjai, Gopal B. Thapa, Ing. Michael Wegner (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The issue of where industries should be located has traditionally been studied from two viewpoints the viewpoint of entrepreneurs and that of governments. About a century ago, when the location of industries started to be scientifically determined, the whole issue was looked at from the point of view of the firms. The main objective of those analyses, and lots of others done since then, has been maximizing profits. More recently issues of market share, strategies of large enterprises and innovations have also entered the industrial location research done for the benefit of the entrepreneurs. Many years after the start of these studies, urban and regional planners began to look at industrial locations, from a public sector viewpoint, for spurring development in backward regions. They have been interested in locating industries for income generation, employment creation and equity among regions. The way industries are located in a region has profound impact on its environment. Understandably, the economists dealing with the industrial locations from entrepreneurs’ viewpoint have neglected the environmental issues altogether. Urban and regional planners have also been mostly concerned with locating industries for economic development. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been their main/only tool for dealing with environmental issues related with industrial locations. EIA is neither strategic nor takes into account environment of whole regions. There now exists a glorified form of EIA called Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). But even SEA is a tool for evaluating policies and plans and not a theoretical approach that could form the basis of policy formulation for industrial locations. This research is an attempt to come up with an environment-based approach for industrial locations and show its applicability in the form of an elaborate case study. The new approach attempts at determining the types and volumes of industries that may be allowed in different parts of a region without excessively violati
Scholarship Donor(s): Govermnent of Japan
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial ftllfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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