Starting a Dialoque on Future Flood Management in Thailand

Starting a Dialoque on Future Flood Management in Thailand

Jonkman, S.N.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Hydraulic Engineering

2012-07-15

Publication of the exhibition and symposium on water adaptive urban planning and architecture in Bangkok. It is an inconvenient trutli tliat societies appear to be willing to invest in adequate flood risk reduction only after devastating disasters. The Netherlands has constructed an extensive system ol dykes and barriers to protect flood-prone areas that cover 60% of the country. This was in response to the latest major flood disaster in 1953 where a storm surge flooded large coastal areas and killed more than 1,800 people. In earlier centuries, many more river and coastal floods affected the country and shaped its landscape, Recently, as a response to near-river floods in 1995, the "Room for Rivers" program has been implemented to increase the discharge capacity of the main rivers and to reduce the risk of flooding.

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Silpakorn University, Faculty of Architecture

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BKK Adaptive City 2045 Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 15-22 July 2012

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conference paper

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