Planning for Sustainable Development in Thailand
12 May 2009
17 – 30 July 2009: Managing land use conflicts, mobility and cultural heritage in Amphawa, Samut Songkhram.
Summer School / International Training Program for advanced bachelor and master students in urban and environmental planning, human geography and international development studies.
17 – 30 July 2009, Bangkok/Samut Songkhram, Thailand
Join this two-week, intercultural and interdisciplinary training program and sharpen your planning skills on the case of Amphawa. This – until recently – predominantly rural community located in Bangkok’s fringe area, on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, currently experiences very rapid, tourism-related growth which is causing a variety of detrimental side-effects. Sustainability is at risk and further threatened by the dangers related to climate change, such as worsening coastal erosion, increasing flood risks and prolonged periods of drought. The participants in the program will be presented with the challenging task of helping the community to address some of its most acute land use, mobility and heritage conservation problems, find a more sustainable pathway to economic development, and increase resilience to the effects of climate change.
Registration deadline: 25 May 2009.
For more information, please visit www.office.arch.ku.ac.th/psdt2009.htm
Organised by the Urban & Environmental Planning Division of Kasetsart University, Faculty of Architecture, in cooperation with the Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam