Model of Port Management Development to Sustainability Building for Marine and Coastal Environment: A Case Study of Laemchabang Deep Sea Port, Chonburi Province

Abstract

This research aims to study the current stage, direction, and the model for policy development of Laemchabang deep seaport management in order to create sustainability for marine and coastal environment. For data collection, this research employs the qualitative research methodology by conducting in-depth interviews with the target group of 21 persons who are directly involved with Laemchabang deep seaport. The outcome of the study discovers that Laemchabang deep seaport, in the present, lacks specific policy to solve marine and coastal environment. The seaport under the overall policy of the Port Authority of Thailand is operated with many activities. Yet, the seaport has encountered several problems in many fronts such as a lack of unity, integrity, coherency, and adequate communal participation. In the future, this research is anticipated that a direction for policy development should focus on a specific policy for marine and coastal environment. Such direction will be connected with the international regulation, the government policy, and the context area. It will include an improvement of a policy process by upholding the rights of the artisanal fisheries and also to increasing a decentralization of local government organizations. As for the policy model, this paper recommends the revision of the following aspects: (1) of international regulation, domestic policy, and the area context; (2) a development of policy process; (3) a development of policy content; and (4) a development of mechanism for policy administration.