Author: Sangchan Limjirakan
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss. no.RD-01-1
Year: 2001
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology,2001
Examination Committee: Apisit Eiumnoh (Chairperson); Kaew Nualchawee, Amador A. Remigio, Thi Kim Oanh Nguyen(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The closely related issues of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and climate change, have recently come to the top of environmental agenda. Human activities have significantly altered the surface of the Earth and the composition of its atmosphere. Land use change is one of human activities on global environmental change. As the land encompasses an enormous variety of topographical features and soil, different slopes, water capacity, heterogeneous vegetation, and ecosystem, the land surface and its ecosystem therefore play an important role in the carbon cycle, hydrological cycle, and in surface exchange of trace gases. Consequently, the land use change resulting from human activities is unavoidable direct effects to the environment. Land was the primary factor of production in agricultural-oriented Thai economy in the past. Increased in industrial development over the last decade, however, led to a large scale of land use change from agricultural base to industrial base, especially, land development under the Eastern Seaboard Program which strongly suppotied by the Thai government. These kinds of development have caused unexpected and unavoidable impacts on communities and environment nearby. Change in land use is one of many factors that affect directly and indirectly activities of greenhouse gases produced. Increased emissions of greenhouse gases and trace gases have also resulted from industrial processes. It is accepted that human-induced activities on land use change cause relation to changes in greenhouse gas and trace gas emissions. In addition, the increases of greenhouse gases and trace gases in the atmosphere resulting from land use change will produce a change in the radiative forcing so that major greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide will consequently cause climate change. Their generation will largely increase proportionate to the economic development and population. The effect of land use change resulting from the conversion of agricultural land to industrial area
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Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Technical Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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