A Cross-cultural Analytical Framework for Territorial Development Policies: The Application to Flood Risk Management Policies in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

A Cross-cultural Analytical Framework for Territorial Development Policies: The Application to Flood Risk Management Policies in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Rongwinriyaphanich, S.

Architecture

Urbanism

2011-12-31

This paper presents the application of a proposed analytical framework that takes cultural dimensions as main parameters to explain territorial development processes. It is illustrated through the analysis of flood risk management in two case study areas in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. It aims to help planners and policy makers to better understand how local planning cultures should be taken into consideration in policy planning processes. The paper addresses three principal elements that are necessary for understanding relations between policy initiatives, local planning cultures and spatial development outcomes. They are (i) three facets of culture expressions relating to flood risk management – risk perception, conception on human-nature relationships and conception on human human relationships; (ii) four fundamental factors (physical conditions, attributes of the community, formal institutions and informal institutions) and their interrelationships that condition decisionmaking processes; and (iii) three change-determining factors (diversity, consistency and power relations), which are crucial to determine whether and to which direction a policy initiative is followed. The empirical test of the framework shows a high level of validity and applicability to explain territorial development processes in the Thai cultural contexts.

planning cultures
informal institutions
flood risk management
Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR)

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WPSC 2011: 3rd World Planning Schools Congress, Perth, Australia, 4-8 July 2011

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