Bangkok: The Ecology and Design of an Aqua-City

Thaitakoo, Danai; McGrath, Brian; Srithanyarat, Suebsiri; Palopakon, Ying

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5341-9_26

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“…Although the western part of Nonthaburi Province was unpopulated until early nineteenth century, settlement began to spread along with canal development in late nineteenth century (Askew, 2000). The predominant land use in this area before urbanization was vegetable fields and fruit orchards along with a mixture of rice paddy fields and village areas (Thaitakoo, McGrath, Srithanyarat, & Palopakon, 2013). Vegetable fields and fruit orchards commonly have poldered and raised-bed structures (Gajaseni & Gajaseni, 1999), which are adapted for use in the local climate, soil, and water environment (Fig.…”

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Linking food and land systems for sustainable peri-urban agriculture in Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Tsuchiya

Hara

Thaitakoo

2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

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h i g h l i g h t s• A geographic approach helps in a holistic understanding of peri-urban food systems.• Food-related activities occurred at multiple spatial scales.• Wet markets served as a hub and spread across wider areas than supermarkets.• An increase in wet markets and supermarkets was associated with land use change.• Connection between local farmers and nearby wet markets was limited. a b s t r a c tWe applied a geographic approach to the analysis of current food-related behaviors in peri-urban Bangkok, Thailand, to better understand potential for building a local food system for sustainable periurban agriculture during a period of rapid urbanization. We addressed three main working questions:(1) Do traditional wet markets keep functioning as an important hub for vegetable and fruit food systems under the influence of modern supermarkets? (2) How "local" are the current food-related behaviors of multiple actors? (3) How do the distributions of food-related actors and their environments change in this period of rapid urbanization in peri-urban areas? We combined field based interviews of multiple actors, including farming and non-farming households, wet market retailers, and food shop owners with a GIS analysis of food-related activities and land use changes. We found that the traditional food system played an important role as both a food source for households and a selling destination for farmers. Wet market, a hub in traditional food system, spread across peri-urban areas and kept increasing under urbanization. There was, however, little connection between farmers and nearby wet markets in the same district and it constricted positive feedbacks between producers and consumers in peri-urban areas. Promoting communication between farmers and nearby retailers will contribute to better governance of a local food system and subsequent long-term conservation of peri-urban farmlands.

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Linking food and land systems for sustainable peri-urban agriculture in Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Tsuchiya

Hara

Thaitakoo

2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…For instance, it used to be common for urban households to have at least a few fruit trees, coconut trees, and herbs for kitchen use, and clean waste water from the households was used for watering, according to study participants in Chennai. It is typical in Bangkok to have orchards in people's gardens, as well as along the dense urban net of canals [41]. It is thus 'our traditional way of [ .…”

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Local Notions of Alternative Practices: Organic Food Movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India

Bopp

2020

Sustainability

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I argue that the common discourses on alternative practices often entail a Western perspective and are sometimes treated as new paths of thinking. This also applies to alternative food practices such as organic farming. Based on empirical research on organic food movements in Bangkok and Chennai, I suggest two examples of alternative practices that have become naturally incorporated in daily routines. Through qualitative expert interviews, long-term observation, and action research, the study reveals that in these movements, urbanites advocate for the right to healthy foods and solidarity with rural farmers, and that farmers employ local sustainable farming methods, including careful resource management and agricultural diversity. Stakeholder engagement is long-term and embraces a spiritual-cultural tone of alternativeness. Based on my findings from my case studies, I propose the following two recommendations. First, the alternative practice discourse needs to open up to the existing plurality of perspectives—openness may prevent the alternative practice discourse from overlooking notable sources of inspiration from societies that inherently perform a diversity of sustainable agricultural practices. Second, continuity, local sustainability notions, and mindfulness need to be included as criteria in the debate. The incorporation of these three themes represented by my two case studies may enrich the discourse through a more local, Global South perspective on alternativeness, and advance its conceptualization.

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“…The socio-cultural systems behind these practices have transformed over generations, further increasing the adaptive capacities of subsequent generations (Berkes et al, 2000;Leonard et al, 2013;Maclean and Inc, 2015). Researchers from different fields seek inspiration from TEK (Yu et al, 2008;Liao et al, 2016;Thaitakoo et al, 2013;Shannon, 2013) and define TEK in various ways with analogous forms of the term such as "local knowledge", "indigenous knowledge", "peasants' knowledge" or "traditional environmental knowledge" (Mercer et al, 2010;Hiwasaki et al, 2014).…”

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“…To fill this gap, this paper explores an offshoot of TEK, known as traditional water knowledge (TWK)an approach to developing resilience to floods. TWK encompasses traditional communities' greater sociocultural understanding of water systems, and integrates the place-based knowledge, use and management techniques of those communities into a scientific and governance approach (Liao et al, 2016;Martin et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2014;Shannon, 2013;Thaitakoo et al, 2013). The long-term experience of adaptive strategies used in TWK can inspire urban planners, communities and government to deal with the future, where TWK can be viewed as "library of information" (Berkes et al, 2000(Berkes et al, , p: 1259.…”

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Traditional water knowledge: challenges and opportunities to build resilience to urban floods

Asad

Ahmed

Vaughan

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IJDRBE

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Purpose Urban flooding in developing countries of the Global South is growing due to extreme rainfall and sea-level rise induced by climate change, as well as the proliferation of impervious, built-up areas resulting from unplanned urbanisation and development. Continuous loss of traditional knowledge related to local water management practices, and the de-valuing of such knowledge that goes hand-in-hand with globalised aspirations, is inhibiting flood resilience efforts. This paper aims to address the need to include traditional water knowledge (TWK) in urban living and development processes in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach This paper commences with a review of existing frameworks that focus on natural resource management, critically assessing two existing frameworks of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The assessment of the existing approaches contributes to this paper’s development of a novel framework to promote TWK with regard to resilience and risk reduction, specifically for developing flood adaptive strategies, which is the second stage of this paper. Finally, the paper explains how the framework can contribute to the field of urban design and planning using examples from the literature to demonstrate challenges and opportunities related to the adaptation of such a framework. Findings The framework developed in this paper reveals three proposed vertices of TWK, named as place-based landscape knowledge, water use and management and water values. This framework has the potential to produce context-specific knowledge that can contribute to flood-resilient built-environment through urban design and practices. Research limitations/implications The framework developed in this paper reveals three proposed vertices of TWK, named place-based landscape knowledge, water use and management and water values. This framework has the potential to produce context-specific knowledge that can contribute to flood-resilient built-environment through urban design and practices. Originality/value Within the field of TEK research, very few researchers have explored the field of developing flood resilience in an urban context. The proposed TWK framework presented in this paper will help to fill that gap.

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Bangkok: The Ecology and Design of an Aqua-City

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Linking food and land systems for sustainable peri-urban agriculture in Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Linking food and land systems for sustainable peri-urban agriculture in Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Local Notions of Alternative Practices: Organic Food Movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India

Traditional water knowledge: challenges and opportunities to build resilience to urban floods

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