Thailand

National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

30 September 2019

Development and climate change in the Mekong Region: Case studies

In the countries of the Mekong Region: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, environmental sustainability continues to be a major concern. As rapid economic growth and increased regional economic integration continue apace, environmental

Documents and publications

3 September 2019

Thailand education sector snapshot for comprehensive school safety and education in emergencies

This series offers comprehensive information and orientation on Thailand's risk reduction capacity, disaster management, and school safety policies and practices.

Documents and publications

20 August 2019

Understanding urban heat island effect and its implications to climate change adaptation strategies in major Southeast Asian Cities

This report covers a project by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research. The project aims to understand the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects on the daily lives of urban residents and their implications to microclimate adaptation and mitigation

Documents and publications

22 July 2019

The current adoption of dry-direct seeding rice (DDSR) in Thailand and lessons learned for Mekong River Delta of Vietnam

With support from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA), a joint study trip was organized for Vietnamese rice researchers, extension workers, as well as local decision makers, to

Documents and publications

3 May 2019

Buletin SEADPRI-UKM No. 18

This biennial publication features the latest research and activities from the Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. This issue includes articles on:

Landslide prediction and monitoring in Thailand
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Documents and publications

18 March 2019

Assessing the linkages between climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and loss and damage (L&D): Case studies in the low-lying coastal cities of Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

Climate-related disaster events are common phenomena in Southeast Asia, particularly in the low-lying major cities of Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. With this in mind, this project intended to link loss and damage (L&D), disaster

Documents and publications

31 January 2019

Climate crisis planning: a toolkit for building local urban resilience

This briefing describes how a new interactive toolkit has been developed and tested in urban communities in Bangkok to help develop strategies for managing climate crises.

Thailand’s cities are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and are

Documents and publications

3 January 2019

Building resilient cities: an assessment of disaster risk management policies in Southeast Asia

This report provides a framework for assessing disaster risk management policies in cities. It also presents the results of assessments and locally tailored policy recommendations in five cities of different institutional, geographic, socio-economic and