Chapter 3 Bangkok liquid perception: waterscape urbanism in the Chao Phraya river delta and implications to climate change adaptation

Thaitakoo, Danai; McGrath, Brian

doi:10.1108/s2040-7262(2010)0000002006

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“…Despite different terminologies and research foci, this description aligns with those of social scientists, urban planners and architects working on environmental vulnerabilities of deltas in one crucial respect [3,5,17]. The latter also repeatedly emphasize the adverse effects of essentially terrestrial modern infrastructure development, which have severely limited the capacity of cities to adapt to flooding [6].…”

Section: Deltas In Crisismentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Drawing on landscape ecology, urban design, history and ethnography, Thaitakoo and McGrath [17] study the relations between life in Bangkok, and the ecological and hydrological aspects of urban planning. Although they seriously engage with both society and ecology, the aim is not to comprehensively model Bangkok's complex urban ecologies.…”

Section: Bangkok's Delta Ecologies: a Cosmo-political Exemplarmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Deltas in Crisis: From Systems to Sophisticated Conjunctions

Jensen

Morita

2020

Sustainability

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In recent years, threatened deltas have emerged as a significant matter of concern in numerous fields. While Earth System science and social-ecological systems focus on topics like global water circulation and sediment transport, social scientists tend to consider the problems facing particular deltas in the context of modernization or (post)-colonial development. There is nevertheless broad agreement that the delta crisis raises fundamental questions about modern approaches to infrastructure planning. Thus, environmental and sustainability scientists have come to recognize “the social” as integral to the delta crisis. This understanding of “the social,” however, takes two quite different forms. As an object of social-ecological systems research, the social is modeled alongside ecological systems. However, as a context for scientific interventions in environmental policy it appears as an obstacle to achieving sustainable delta policies. Based on a careful examination of Earth System science and associated discourses, we show that this instability of “the social”, combined with the ambition to integrate ‘it’ in an encompassing system poses serious problems for interdisciplinary delta research and for more imaginative and inclusive collaborative efforts to tackle the delta crisis—including, but going considerably beyond, policy and governance. Rather than integrative systems, we argue that the situation requires the creation of sophisticated conjunctions of epistemologies, methods, and practices. Such conjunctions, we suggest, pave the way for a cosmo-ecological approach, where social, environmental and sustainability sciences work together with designers, urban planners, policy-makers, and affected or concerned citizens on solving multi-scalar delta problems by working across their differences.

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Section: Deltas In Crisismentioning

confidence: 70%

Section: Bangkok's Delta Ecologies: a Cosmo-political Exemplarmentioning

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Deltas in Crisis: From Systems to Sophisticated Conjunctions

Jensen

Morita

2020

Sustainability

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“…Life revolved around an aquatic network of natural or dug canals which formed most transportation routes. Similarly, many residents lived in amphibious dwellings, either houses on stilts or floating houses (Thaitakoo and McGrath 2010).…”

Section: The Uneven Geography Of Transportation Nodes and Public Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An urban political ecology of Bangkok's awful traffic congestion

Marks

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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Urban political ecology (UPE) can contribute important insights to examine traffic congestion, a significant social and environmental problem underexplored in UPE. Specifically, by attending to power relations, the production of urban space, and cultural practices, UPE can help explain why traffic congestions arises and persists but also creates inequalities in terms of environmental impacts and mobility. Based on qualitative research conducted in 2018, the article applies a UPE framework to Bangkok, Thailand, which has some of the world's worst congestion in one of the world's most unequal countries. The city's largely unplanned and uneven development has made congestion worse in a number of ways. Further, the neglect of public transport, particularly the bus system, and the highest priority given to cars has exacerbated congestion but also reflects class interests as well as unequal power relations. Governance shortcomings, including fragmentation, institutional inertia, corruption, and frequent changes in leadership, have also severely hindered state actors to address congestion. However, due to the poor's limited power, solutions to congestion, are post-political and shaped by elite interests. Analyses of congestion need to consider how socio-political relations, discourses, and a city's materiality shape outcomes.Key Words: urban transport governance, Bangkok traffic congestion, urban political ecology, Thailand political economy, Bangkok's bus system

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“…Next to structural flood protection, there is a need to develop strategies aimed at reducing flood consequences and adjusting to climate change uncertainties (Aerts & Botzen, 2011;Lu & Stead, 2013;Restemeyer et al, 2015;Sörensen et al, 2016). The evolutionary perspective therefore emphasizes 'waterscape' or -'living with water' -perceptions (Thaitakoo & McGrath, 2010;Dahiya & Thaitakoo, 2012). Translated to urban flood risk management, a more holistic and integrated approach is promoted, emphasizing flexible and adaptive measures to anticipate rising flood consequences (Lu & Stead, 2013;Scott, 2013).…”

Section: Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%