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Use of GIS tools for environmental conflict resolution at Map Ta Phut industrial zone in Thailand

This paper presents an analysis of an environmental conflict that arose in a Thai industrial zone. The authors analyse state policies to resolve the conflict, and draw lessons for other industrializing nations adopting industrial zone models. The study revealed that a root cause of the conflict was violation of land-use planning regulations and expansion of the industrial zone into community areas. Through legal action, civil society successfully forced the state and industries to halt unplanned expansion. However, inadequate commitment by the state and industry stakeholders seems to perpetuate the conflict. A Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based analysis confirmed that the state policy interventions did not produce significant results. This paper highlights the need for GIS-based environmental quality monitoring to guide industrialization-based urban development towards sustainability.

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  • Civil society
  • Land and housing rights and evictions
  • Legal aid
  • Special economic zones
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© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

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Ranjith Perera. Email: ranjith@squ.edu.om; Tel.: +968-2414-2505

ရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်း) Soytong, Phattraporn
ပူးတွဲရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ) Perera, Ranjith
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေရာ Switzerland
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2014
အထွေထွေ မှတ်ချက်

Sustainability,Volume 6,2435-2458

တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇွန် 21, 2015, 14:04 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ မတ် 14, 2018, 04:08 (UTC)