The objectives of this study were to study the agenda setting process, policy formulation, implementation, development of the Village and Urban Community fund. The research method was qualitative, combining the document research and indepth interview with the key informants related to the policy formulation and implementation, in order to study the policy agenda setting process, implementation, and the factors contributing to success, problems, and obstruction in policy formulation, as well as the model of policy development. The result in...

This study aims to examine the factors affecting the management of biogas production from the wastewater produced by natural rubber processing at community level and to develop a management model. The methodologies consist of a literature review on the factors affecting biogas management and the sites studies based on structural interviews with three rubber sheet production cooperatives in Songkhla Province. The data are summarized to find the key factors and criteria. These factors and criteria were ranked using the Analytical Hierarchy ...

The objectives of this dissertation were 1) To study the problem condition and obstacles in Chiangrai earthquakes mitigation according to disaster prevention and mitigation strategy plan. 2) To study the actors in local, provincial and national levels of policies network in Chiangrai earthquakes mitigation 3) To study the guideline to integrate coordination between organizations involved in the earthquakes mitigation in Chiangrai. Data collection started from qualitative research followed by quantitative research.

              The development model of the elderly’s health service system towards the excellence of tertiary hospitals attached to the Royal Thai Navy used the mixed quantitative and qualitative research and aimed to 1) Study the elderly’s health service system of tertiary hospitals attached to the Royal Thai Navy 2) Compare the quality of life and demand of health service of the elderly with different abilities of daily living and seeking services of the tertiary hospitals in different areas and 3) Synthesize the development model of the elde...

This research aimed to evaluate the household electronic waste (e-waste) management in Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) in Chachoengsao, Chonburi, and Rayong provinces, and recommend the appropriate model of household e-waste management for EEC, notably at the policy level. This research was qualitative research by analyzing situations, problems, and impacts from household e-waste management in the three provinces between 2016-2019, with the concept of Pressure-State-Response (PSR). After that, evaluate the household e-waste management in the th...

This study aimed to study Knowledge and understanding, attitude, motivation and acceptance of RSPO standard for small oil palm farmers in Chumphon Province, to study factors affecting oil palm farmers to be certified by RSPO and to propose a practical model to promote RSPO among farmers. The study was conducted with qualitative and quantitative research methods. Questionnaires were collected from 390 small oil palm farmers who have not been certified by RSPO. The collected data was used for descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multi...

This study investigated the factors that promote current power generation from solar rooftop, analyzed the factors influencing the expansion of solar power generation not registered with government agencies, and recommended a model to promote sustainable power generation from solar rooftop.  The study consisted of qualitative research utilizing Delphi technics and data analysis based on the framework of CIPP-I model consisting of data analysis of the expansion of solar power generation drawn from the import volume of  solar panels (trade databa...

This research aimed to 1) study basic data about mediation on environmental disputes for developing a model of mediation on environmental disputes for the restoration of natural resources, 2) to study and seek factors affecting the mediation process on environmental disputes affecting the restoration of natural resources in a tangible manner and 3) to prepare a model and suggestion appropriate to current situations based on development guidelines model of mediation on environmental disputes for the restoration of natural resources and environme...

The transportation system in Thailand has been biased in favor of road transport as investment in rail transport involves large scale budget and government policy. The favorable attribute of rail transport is more competitive freight cost in exchange for large investment. This study employs the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model in ORANI tradition (Dixon et al., 1982) as the tool for the accounting of economic benefits, economic cost, environmental benefits and environmental costs. The increase in rail transport investment is feed...

Fire is a major problem that causes loss of life and property. Fire incidents eventually occur with old community neighborhoods that have landmarks within or around. Small communities and slums in the inner area of Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city, are risk because they are also historical and cultural sites. Important government agencies of Bangkok are sometime also built in such area. In contrast, most Bangkok slums still lack measures or guidelines for managing the accessibility and fire safety. To prevent fire damage and redundant accidents...

This research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the waste minimization of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), study relevant factors, and propose an appropriate system of BMA's waste minimization (BMAWM). The data were collected through document research, participatory observation, and interviews with the BMA administrators and officers, and community leaders. Data analysis employed the CIPP-I framework for BMAWM evaluation, SWOT analysis for factor analysis, and Input-Process-Output (I-P-O) model for developing an appropriate s...

This study aimed to investigate the current development and ability of human resource in environmental aspect of the municipality, investigate the desired behavior of human resource development and system of human resource development in environmental aspect of the municipality, and recommend the pattern of human resource development in environmental aspect of the municipality in Thailand. The tools used to collect the data were questionnaire in order to assess the potential of human resource in environmental aspect of 345 municipalities at all...

Thailand Emission Trading Scheme (Thailand ETS) was established to prepare for Thailand’s emission trading in playing a part in the global movement for the reduction of CO2 emissions. The energy intensive sectors, including, petrochemicals, cement, iron and steel, electricity, and aviation industries, are selected to target industries to achieve the reduction of CO2 emission. The implementation of Thailand ETS can be expected to effect change in the Thailand economy. This study applied the concept of economic cost as the external cost is introd...

The objectives of the study are to identify the potential, the needs, and the limitations in the environmental management faced by the small hotels in  Koh Chang, to study factors affecting the implementation of the environmental management under the present situation and to suggest the approach for the environmental management of small hotels in Koh Chang. This was a qualitative research which included one month of area observation and interviews with 36 related stakeholders. There were 29 informants of direct parties of 10 small hotel personn...

This research aimed to investigate hotels type 1 in Bangkok to: (1) assess their water footprint,  (2) study their water management, and (3) propose a water management guideline. Questionnaire was employed to reveal water management of 54 hotels type1 and to assess water footprint of 19 hotels type 1 through the calculation based on Hotel Water Measurement Initiative (HWMI) Methodology. The informants were representatives of 54 hotels type 1 in Bangkok. The level of water consumption was also obtained from Metropolitan Waterworks Authority. Int...

This research aimed to evaluate the operation and management of power development fund in Thailand and to propose an appropriate model for managing power development fund in Thailand by using the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC). The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard consists of six perspectives which are the overall efficiency of operation and management perspective, the management process perspective, the stakeholder perspective, the learning and development perspective, the environmental perspective and the social perspective. This s...

This study examines the relationship, transactions, and interactions between Customs and business in regulating, controlling, and processing cross-border trade movement and safeguarding national security. More specifically, theoretical and practical dimensions on Customs-business partnership (CBP) are studied within the broader context of administrative reform and Customs modernization since the 1990s in China Customs and Thai Customs.

Most research combines irregular migration with regular migration becausethe two phenomena are interwoven and because of the hidden nature and unreliableestimation of the data on irregular migration, therefore, there is a lack of widelyacceptable theoretical framework explaining irregular migration. The objectives ofthis study are to develop a conceptual framework for the determinants of irregularmigration of Myanmar workers to Thailand and to provide policy recommendations toaddress this problem. In this study, irregular migration refers to My...

The objectives of this dissertation are (1) to identify characteristics oftransformational leadership behaviors, learning organization culture, employeeinvolvement climate and organizational effectiveness among four main publicenterprises within the Thai energy sector, (2) to explore the relationships amongtransformational leadership behaviors, learning organization culture, and employeeinvolvement climate on organizational effectiveness within the Thai energy sector, (3)to propose a structural model of organizational effectiveness regarding th...