Low-carbon city communication: Integrated strategies for urban and rural municipalities in Thailand

Sereenonchai, Sukanya; Arunrat, Noppol; Stewart, Thomas Neal

doi:10.1016/j.cjpre.2021.04.025

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“…To achieve the low‐carbon city model, the public sector has run various zero‐waste projects since 2017. One such project is “Khon Kaen: Low‐Carbon City,” conducted in response to the megaproject “Achieving Low‐Carbon Growth in Cities Through Sustainable Urban Systems Management in Thailand.” These efforts revitalized low‐carbon cities as they requires several stakeholders, and the transfer of scientific knowledge and research for successful implementation (Ishikawa, 2017; Sereenonchai et al., 2020) However, the initiatives of community and temple represented in this study displayed an alternative environmental management. Rather than being dictated by higher authorities, these initiatives arose from mutual agreement among actors in the community.…”

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Waste‐merit management: How adapting Buddhist environmental ethics can help – A qualitative case study of Buddhist temples in Khon Kaen, Thailand

Prabnok,

Chamaratana,

Sirisuwilai

et al. 2023

Int Social Sci J

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Thailand needs to manage trash disposal due to the country's growing urban community. This study argues that waste management in the city of Khon Kaen can benefit from adopting Buddhist environmental ethics. We conducted a qualitative case study with purposive sampling of 24 key informants for in‐depth interviews. We used the ATLAS.ti programme to apply content analysis techniques (theme, coding and quotation). Our case study argues for an optimistic practice of waste management in temples by integrating the Buddhist principle of merit‐making. This approach shapes waste management, such as donating waste, garbage‐free funerals and waste disposal. The waste merit‐making in the temples reinforces application of 3Rs (reuse, reduce and recycle). The study suggests that waste‐merit management model could be replicated in other communities but its success is not guaranteed due to variations in the level of support and collaboration between community and temple.

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Waste‐merit management: How adapting Buddhist environmental ethics can help – A qualitative case study of Buddhist temples in Khon Kaen, Thailand

Prabnok,

Chamaratana,

Sirisuwilai

et al. 2023

Int Social Sci J

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“…As energy transition is a key priority, this model also promotes renewable energy policy by shifting from fossil fuels to depleted oil and gas reserves, towards green energy efficient sources and strengthening long-term greenhouse gas emission reduction in 2050 [6]. This is also known as Thailand's low carbon society (LCS) initiative, emerging to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in the country [7]. The AEDP has increasingly driven alternative energy usage and energy import reduction, such as solar, wind, hydro, waste, biomass, and biogas power.…”

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Community Capacity-Building Mobilization towards Energy Transitions in the Era of Thailand 4.0: A Case Study on Biomass Power Plants

2021

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In 2015, the National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) approved the latest Alternative Energy Development Plan (AEDP) 2015–2036, targeting electricity generation from biomass, biogas, and municipal solid waste by 2036 towards the Thailand 4.0 policy. The small biomass power plants are intensively promoted, contributing to many more public concerns. Therefore, this study provided new insight using the readiness and resilience in the communities near the biomass power plant generation in Southern Thailand. The community readiness model (CRM) and community health impact assessment (CHIA) were adopted using mixed methods during January–November 2019. A total of 999 respondents replied to the questionnaires, 153 informants were interviewed, and the panel was discussed and analyzed by descriptive statistics and content analysis. Findings illustrated that all stakeholder sectors strengthened community-driven development based on the average community readiness (3.01 ± 0.11) in a vague awareness stage, only with participation in information giving (75.38%) and having an impact pain point score of 7.64 ± 0.54, which was a highly intense level used to develop the public policy towards biomass power plants. Recent advanced community tools offered new insights for the first time about community strategic plans for sustainable biomass power generation, to achieve community security and values of democracy in Southern Thailand.

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Is high natural resource dependence doomed to low carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from 283 cities in China

Fan

Li²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Energy Economics

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Low-carbon city communication: Integrated strategies for urban and rural municipalities in Thailand

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Waste‐merit management: How adapting Buddhist environmental ethics can help – A qualitative case study of Buddhist temples in Khon Kaen, Thailand

Waste‐merit management: How adapting Buddhist environmental ethics can help – A qualitative case study of Buddhist temples in Khon Kaen, Thailand

Community Capacity-Building Mobilization towards Energy Transitions in the Era of Thailand 4.0: A Case Study on Biomass Power Plants

Is high natural resource dependence doomed to low carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from 283 cities in China

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