Author: Chandhana Indhapanya
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss no. HS-96-04
Year: 1996
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1996
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Hans Detlef Kammeier, Uwe Stoll (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Thailand has adapted the Environmental Impact Assessment process as a tool for environmental management at the project level since 1978. However, not a single EIA report in Thailand includes rigorously social impact assessment dimension. This is mainly because available SIA methods and techniques which are largely developed and practiced in developed countries are neither clearly known nor applied in the EIA process in Thailand. In addition, limited budget, time, and qualified social impact researchers are often among the major constraints in the EIA process in Thailand. The main objectives of this study are to select and synthesize appropriate methods and techniques to be applied for selected areas of social impact assessment and employ those selected methods and techniques to assess the social impacts of the Eastern Seaboard Development Program (ESDP) in few selected areas and their demonstration for application in other projects of Thailand in future. The ESDP is the largest industrial and multi-purpose development program ever planned and undertaken in the country. Two coastal areas of the eastern seaboard sub-region, namely Map Taphut in the southeast coast and Laem Chabang in the east coast of the Upper Gulf of Thailand are the main locations under promotion for industrial activities. This study intends to use relatively simple methods and techniques for evaluation of the ESDP. To familiar with the problems and issues in the ESB area, the method of Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) has been employed at the very beginning of the study. Technique of impact network is used for presentation of direct and indirect impacts as perceived from the RRA study. With the outcome of the RRA results, the analyses of this study are made at two levels: macro and micro. At the macro-level analysis, the study applies spatial analysis of social indicators to evaluate social impacts of the ESDP for the whole ESB area. The analysis has been made by amp hoe (district) level of all three provinces as well as by tr
Scholarship Donor(s): Royal Thai Government
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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