Green Design and Planning Resolutions for an Eco-Industrial Town: A Case Study of Polluted Industrial Estate in Rayong Province, Thailand

Abstract

Map Ta Phut was designated for development in national policy as an Eastern Seaboard Industrial Port. It is located in Rayong Province with growing demand from Eastern Seaboard industries and is heavily affected by serious environmental problems as a"pollution control zone". While the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking, representing the national business sector, claimed that the area generated total revenues of 1.1 trillion baht per year, or 11% of Thailand’s gross domestic product, and employed more than 100,000 workers, the declaration of the area as a pollution control zone severely limited investment and business operations. Thus, controversies arose among the investment business sectors, the residential sector (residents have been affected by a decrease in their quality of life and health) and environmental concern sectors. This paper aims to find an efficient and practical mitigation practice to balance the purposes of the industrial port with protection of surrounding communities and natural resources. The author will apply physical design and planning such as the application of “buffer zones”, “greenbelts”, “set-back”, “green corridor”, “green wall” and “protection strips” along with environmental measurements such as the Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI), which can be adapted for pollution protection as best practices of landscape architecture

Temporal Variations and Potential Source Areas of Fine Particulate Matter in Bangkok, Thailand

“…46 While building surfaces had a much lower ability to trap PM 2.5 , 45 green walls can be used to improve their ability to reduce pollutants. 47…”

“…46 While building surfaces had a much lower ability to trap PM 2.5 , 45 green walls can be used to improve their ability to reduce pollutants. 47 To enhance the capability of reducing PM 2.5 in the ambient air in cities such as Bangkok, identifying all potential source areas of PM 2.5 given by all the air quality monitoring stations over Bangkok is required. This study also provides additional potential source areas of PM 2.5 for other monitoring locations in Bangkok as shown in the Supplemental Material.…”

“…All potential source areas around Bangkok can provide information to design green corridors to improve Bangkok air quality. The concept of connectivity can be used to increase green areas [47][48][49] by connecting built-up green zones at all potential source areas to serve as green corridors.…”

The coexistence of amenity and biodiversity in urban landscapes

“…Although central to urban planning in the UK, green belts and green spaces have become elastic expressions used in disparate ways across the globe (see, for example, Aruninta, 2012;Jan, Hsieh, Ishikawa & Sun, 2012;Colesca & Alpopi, 2011).…”

Use of GIS Tools for Environmental Conflict Resolution at Map Ta Phut Industrial Zone in Thailand

“…People detect such releases due to the aromatic nature of some VOCs and worry about the health risks. The average monthly measurements by the PCD revealed that the levels of benzene and dichloromethane exceeded the maximum amount at most of the monitoring stations during 2007-2010 [45]. The average monthly level of butadiene fluctuated below and above the standard during the same period.…”