Analysis and spatial application of human security indicators in perspectives of sustainable development

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the implications of human security indicators and sustainable development, in perspectives of economic, social, and environmental aspects for investigating development opportunities in Thailand, focusing on the central west region. The Human Achievement Index (HAI) from the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) was applied as a based case of human security indicators for a mixed-method rescarch in this study. The data collection was conducted by a purposive sampling method via the Delphi technique, which 18 participants wer nvited to deliver their opinions as the panelists. After that, the significant indicators were integrated with the spatial application to verity development opportunities further. This analysis applied various statistical measurements, including Mean, Median, Mode, and Interquartile to pursue central tendency and implication levels of variable relationships. The findings expressed a series of implications, which human security affected to sustainable development, for instance, the top three rankings of significant indicators in each perspective could be ordered, as follows: 1) economie security--family income, consuming debt, and poverty rate. 2) social security--unemplovment rate, social insurance, and high school and vocational training opportunity, and 3) environmental security--serviceable main road, greenhouse emission rate, and house and land owner, respectively. The study also derived various indicators from the panelists via the Delphi technique, for example, sufficieney economic village, drug-traflicking case, immigration rate, medical personnel rute, and air cuality index. Furthermore. the panelists contribute some recommendations for further study, including ecological and creative tourism, local business mechanism, smart city, empirical indicator, multi-dimensions of social and environmental issues. Nevertheless, the panelists also suggested that the political vote rate in the year 2016 should be dismissed from the HAL