"The urban land re-development policy is one of the most important issues in government decision-making. Controversy after announcing any urban land policy has occurred regularly. Most of them involve the diversity of needs and conflict in directions of utilization. The author uses the abbreviation ?WiMBY' (an antonym of ?NiMBY') as the analysis tool to compare the heterogeneity of interests in publicly owned land utilization. The author reviewed the failures and successes of urban land utilization projects on all continents, especially cases of controversy. Factors involved in decision-making are compared herein to find homogeneity / heterogeneity of patterns by partially using a quantitative analysis tool. The provided opportunities involve three major directions of the ?land redevelopment tripod': economic, social, and environmental. Implications of WiMBY CIA will be generalized for a further comparative policy study with multi-stakeholders, to understand the diversity of attitudes optimistically, and to deliver greater consensus in future decision-making.

Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (August 25, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3639285948
ISBN-13: 978-3639285949
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds "

"Book. "From Theory to Practise : For Urban Managers."
CUSRI 35th Anniversary publication series.
Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute.
ISBN 978-616-551-200-8.

This book contains articles in Urban Management, it aims to give Urban Managers some comparative case studies for further decisions."

"The National Tourism Authority of Thailand positions the country as a serene and peaceful destination that is ideal for leisure visits and offers quality, world-class attractions and hospitality services. Tourism is recognized as one of the most dynamic devices in the country’s economic development and has become the highest foreign currency earner compared with other industrial sectors. Although landscape design and planning play an important role in tourism development, the need remains to stress the qualities of the destination by studying the carrying capacity and assigning land use that preserves ecosystems and cultural landscapes, both tangible and intangible, throughout the development. This study focuses on the case of agro-eco tourism destinations. The discussion in this paper includes the pros and cons of recent developments in three rural provinces of Thailand.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Cultural landscape; Rural; Tourism; Agro-tourism; Eco-tourism; Landscape architecture."

"Landscape architect is an occupation dealing with physical environment and people. Many schools start their trainings with the ‘Beaux-Arts’, then adding other approaches into their curriculum included ‘Modernism’ of space designers like Burle Marx, Garrett Eckbo, and Dan Kiley, to the more ‘Multiplism’ like ‘Landscape Alchemy’  where the cultural construction of meaning through dynamic, interactive and exultant landscape (Hargreaves, 2009), to what GIS was developed later from ecological approach like ‘Design With Nature’ (McHarg, 1969), and recent ‘Sustainable design and planning’ and  ‘environmental consciousness’ practices,  etc and combining them to serve for diverse demands so-called ‘Eclecticism in Landscape Architecture Education’.
This paper aims to present the importance of ‘social landscape architecture’ education in addition to the already mentioned approaches, in order to amplify the voice of actual space users both directly and indirectly. Therefore, the development of a project should require extensive public involvement from various domains (De Sousa, 2002)
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"Map Ta Phut was indicated in the national policy to be Industrial Port on the Eastern Seaboard development. It locates in Rayong Province with the growing demand from Eastern Seaboard industries and heavily affected by serious environmental problems - as ‘pollution control zones’. While the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking, representing the national business sector claimed that the area generated total revenues of Bt1.1 trillion a year, or 11 per cent of Thailand’s gross domestic product, employing more than 100,000 workers, so the declaring the area a pollution control zone severely damaged investment and business operations. Thus, these are the controversial issues among the investment business sectors, the residents which have been affected on their quality of life and health, and environmental concern sectors.
This paper aims to find an efficient and practical mitigation to balance the purposes between industrial port and protection of surrounded communities and natural resources. The author will apply physical design and planning such as the applications of “buffer zone”, “green belt”, “set-back”, “green corridor”, “green wall”, “protection strip”, and combined with environmental measurements like Air Pollution Tolerance Index–APTI, which can be adapted for pollution protection as landscape architectural best practice.

Keywords: urban environment; environmental measurement; air quality; physiological response; landscape architecture; eco-industrial Town; buffer; pollution protection; landscape indicator; tolerance index"

"The NEB declared the Map Ta Phut Municipality and vicinity - heavily affected by serious environmental problems - as ‘pollution control zones’ in order to control, reduce and eliminate toxic waste especially VOCs-Volatile Organic Compounds in accordance with guidelines contained in the National Environment Quality Act. While the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking, representing the national business sector claimed that the area generated total revenues of Bt1.1 trillion a year, or 11 per cent of Thailand’s gross domestic product, employing more than 100,000 workers, so the declaring the area a pollution control zone severely damaged investment and business operations. Thus, these are the controversial issues among the investment business sectors, the residents which have been affected on their quality of life and health, and environmental concern sectors.

The National Policies seem to support investment and regulate only to what extremely affect to environment. In some cases of declaring the pollution control zones, it is the end of the pipe solution. Many terms and solutions have been introduced from key actors such as the applications of “buffer zone”, “green belt”, “set-back”, “green corridor”, “green wall”, and “protection strip”, but the mitigations proceed tardily and the effects are unable to be cured promptly and even impossible to be cured.

This talk aims to find an efficient and practical mitigation to balance the purposes between industrial port and protection of surrounded communities and natural resources. The speaker will investigate the upstream source or the start of the pipe, then apply landscape indicator like Air Pollution Tolerance Index–APTI. The assumption is tolerance in plants : tolerant, intermediate, sensitive, and very sensitive , can be adapted for pollution protection as landscape architectural best practice."