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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) City Planning Department has drawn up a 3D city planning map highlighting traffic routes, infrastructure and risk areas for potential property owners and developers...
'It's impossible to prevent flooding, even if you have floodways, new retention areas or new reservoirs.' 'We can never say that flooding will not occur, nor that it will not have an impact if we have those measures'...
Disaster prevention and water management experts are worried that the delay in discharging water from the dams could lead to a repeat of last year's catastrophic floods, as Thailand is expected to experience high rainfall this year due to the La Nina weather phenomenon...
The Bangkok Post suggests that Thailand should learn from past lessons by ensuring that an effective early warning system is in place as well as adopting a political decentralisation...
According to the Bangkok Post, alongside remembrance events of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, respected meteorologist Smith Dharmasaroja warned that the tsunami warning system in Thailand is broken. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra agreed that a better early warning system is needed...
Through disaster education, Thailand would be able to increase its ability to cope as well as its risk assessment and preparedness. 'It will be difficult to prevent disasters from happening. The more practical approach would be to adapt'...
Louis Lebel, director of Chiang Mai University's Unit for Social and Environmental Research, said the government should think about a long-term solution to flooding crises in the next decade ahead, not only in the next flood season...
'After the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake, we have learned an important lesson that no prevention plans are perfect as we cannot control the power of nature,' Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kazuyuki Hamada told the Bangkok Post...
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