Management of Flood Crisis in Thailand
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The purpose of this research is (1) to study management methods for solving floods in crisis (2) to analyze factors affecting floods in crisis. It is a qualitative research by studying 4 areas, namely Pathum Thani Province 2011, Bangkok 2011, Surat Thani Province 2017, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province 2017, collecting data from 6 data group which are 1) Policy group management 2) Regional executive group 3) Local administrative group 4) Academic group 5) Flood-related worker group 6) People group of stakeholders through in-depth interviews and group conversation and with a triangular inspection. Research shows that flood management in a crisis must manage to solve the problem to a minimum with speed according to the area context at that time and according to the law does not affect the rights of citizens and operations of related departments and there should be an in-depth study of the implementation of the concept of the event command system as a guideline in operation. There should also be a comparative study of flood management in an international crisis, cooperation or integration of roles in Southeast Asia. To be able to use the information for flood management for more efficiency.
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