Community Resilience in Thailand: a Case Study of Flood Response in Nakhonsawan City Municipality
Description:
Natural disasters such as flooding often affect vast areas and create infinite demands that need to be addressed in the same time. The wide scopes and severe impacts of such catastrophes often exceed, if not overwhelm, capacity of the national government to handle. In such a situation, communities such as cities and neighborhoods need to rely on their own capacity (resources, strategies, and expertise) to respond to disaster impacts at least until external assistance can be reached. Thus, study…
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Date:
May 2013
Creator:
Khunwishit, Somporn
Partner:
UNT Libraries