The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok: The Creation of Uneven Vulnerabilities

Marks, Danny

doi:10.5509/2015883623

Cited by 66 publications

(72 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In a more global context, researchers have already utilized UPE in disaster studies, such as Marks (2015), analyzing the 2011 flood event in Bangkok, Thailand, and Maes et al (2019) talking about landslide and flood risk zonation. They used UPE to reveal a disaster as an urban socio-ecological issue in a more political context.…”

Section: The Concept Of Urban Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They used UPE to reveal a disaster as an urban socio-ecological issue in a more political context. Putting it differently, UPE, as Marks (2015) argues, helps to explain disaster creation and shaping.…”

Section: The Concept Of Urban Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Oliver-Smith (1999, 2004, 2009, vulnerability is a subject of political ecology because it studies human and natural interactions closely related to the political economy. Although some researchers, such as Pelling (1999), Marks (2015), Salami, von Meding, & Giggins (2017), Maes et al (2019) have utilized the urban political ecology (UPE) framework, so far no research has been carried out in the Indonesian context. Notably, there have been no studies that discussed the vulnerability of coastal areas or communities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the UPE framework can be used to understand the dynamics of cities that affect vulnerability. As Marks (2015) mentioned, UPE can be useful to explain more fully how disasters are formed and occur.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Applying the Urban Political Ecology (UPE) Framework to Re-Visit Disaster and Climate Change Vulnerability-Risk Assessments

Rahman

Nurhasanah

Nugraha

et al. 2019

jrcp

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Vulnerability and risk assessment (VRA) is increasingly becoming more popular as a tool to assess and evaluate the likelihood and externalities that are faced by urban areas because of environmental hazards and climate change. However, urban dynamics are increasingly putting communities in a vulnerable/riskier situation, calling for a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach. Urban Political Ecology (UPE) was utilized as a framework to reflect upon the empirical findings and literature review with two urban villages (kelurahan) in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia-Kangkung and Kota Karang-as case studies. We argue that the existing VRA is not adequate to address fundamental issues of environmental hazards and climate change. Different aspects, such as the city's metabolism of human-nature interaction, contribute to producing vulnerability and need to be taken into account. This research also recommends that future urban disaster governance should incorporate the production and alteration of (social) vulnerability by considering spatial and temporal dimensions in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.Abstrak. Penilaian kerentanan dan risiko (VRA) semakin populer sebagai alat untuk menilai dan mengevaluasi kemungkinan dan eksternalitas yang dihadapi oleh daerah perkotaan karena bahaya lingkungan dan perubahan iklim. Namun, dinamika perkotaan dari waktu ke waktu menempatkan masyarakat dalam situasi yang rentan/berisiko, sehingga menyerukan pendekatan yang lebih komprehensif dan antar-disiplin. Kami memobilisasi Ekologi Politik Perkotaan (PDU) digunakan sebagai kerangka kerja untuk merefleksikan temuan empiris dan tinjauan literatur melalui dua desa perkotaan (kelurahan) di Bandar Lampung, Indonesia-Kangkung dan Kota Karang-sebagai studi kasus. Kami berpendapat bahwa penilaian kerentanan dan risiko yang saat ini ada tidak memadai untuk menangani masalah-masalah inti dari bahaya-bahaya lingkungan dan perubahan iklim. Aspek-aspek yang berbeda, seperti metabolisme kota dari interaksi manusia-alam, berkontribusi untuk menghasilkan kerentanan, yang perlu diperhitungkan juga. Penelitian ini juga merekomendasikan bahwa tata kelola bencana Applying Urban Political Ecology (UPE) Framework to Re-Visit Disaster and Climate Change Vulnerability-Risk Assessments 225 perkotaan masa depan harus memasukan bagaimana produksi dan perubahan kerentanan (sosial) dengan mempertimbangkan dimensi spasial dan temporal dalam pengurangan risiko bencana dan adaptasi perubahan iklim. Kata kunci. Ekologi politik perkotaan, bencana, perubahan iklim, penilaian kerentanan dan risiko, Bandar Lampung.

show abstract

Section: The Concept Of Urban Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Concept Of Urban Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Applying the Urban Political Ecology (UPE) Framework to Re-Visit Disaster and Climate Change Vulnerability-Risk Assessments

Rahman

Nurhasanah

Nugraha

et al. 2019

jrcp

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Unplanned urban growth with mismanaged infrastructure development and land use changes reflects those outcomes [22,23]. In the context of this study, we interpret unplanned urbanization as a result of weak urban governance as well as the absence, or insufficient implementation, of important planning regulations for example, land use plans.…”

Section: Urbanization Climate Change Vulnerability and Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Livelihood Vulnerabilities in an Urbanizing and Climate Uncertain Environment for the Case of a Secondary City in Thailand

Beringer

Kaewsuk

2018

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Increasing flood risks in Thailand are leading to new challenges for flood management and subsequently for livelihoods, which are still significantly agricultural. Policy makers prefer building flood protection infrastructure over utilizing non-structural measures like urban planning regulations to mitigate risks. We argue that unplanned urbanization intensifies flood risks and livelihood vulnerability and may even create new poverty patterns in peri-urban areas. However, urbanization can also strengthen the adaptive capacity of people in flood risk areas by providing more secure employment opportunities. We assess the livelihood vulnerability of Pra Lab, a peri-urban area of Khon Kaen City in Northeast Thailand, using a qualitative and quantitative analysis. The study relies on a vulnerability index developed from a household survey and rainfall statistics, complemented by household in-depth interviews. We further identified factors of unplanned urbanization in Khon Kaen City and Pra Lab through interviews with relevant local government offices. Our findings show that Pra Lab's household livelihoods are moderately vulnerable to flood due to high financial (i.e., income, debts) and physical vulnerability (i.e., housing, urban systems, infrastructure). Major factors of unplanned urbanization that contribute to flood risks are lack of land use regulations, inefficient monitoring of land and house elevations, reduced pervious surfaces, ineffective water governance and insufficient wastewater treatment.

show abstract

A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins

Marks

Miller

2022

Env Pol Gov

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study develops a transboundary political ecology of air pollution to show how its spatially and socially unequal distribution constitutes a form of slow violence among already marginal sections of society. Recent research on transboundary air pollution in Southeast Asia and globally has mainly focused on the supranational or regional scale of environmental governance without taking into proper account the socially differentiated impacts of these cross‐border flows of environmental harm at lower organisational scales. Air pollution in Thailand, which ranks amongst the worst in the world, generates spill‐over effects across sub‐national borders that disproportionately impact the urban and rural poor. We examine the drivers of the three major sources of air pollution in Thailand: vehicular emissions, agricultural emissions and industrial emissions to direct attention toward the barriers and opportunities for collaborative governance in urban, peri‐urban and rural settings. The article argues that administrative fragmentation and the protection of vested economic interests by Thai business and political elites have compromised transboundary governance of the air while adding to socio‐spatial inequalities and environmental injustices. We recommend legislative reforms centred on cross‐sectoral and cross‐jurisdictional cooperation to provide redress for the slow violence perpetrated against marginal citizens in the governance of air pollution.

show abstract

The Urban Political Ecology of the 2011 Floods in Bangkok: The Creation of Uneven Vulnerabilities

Cited by 66 publications

References 0 publications

Applying the Urban Political Ecology (UPE) Framework to Re-Visit Disaster and Climate Change Vulnerability-Risk Assessments

Applying the Urban Political Ecology (UPE) Framework to Re-Visit Disaster and Climate Change Vulnerability-Risk Assessments

Emerging Livelihood Vulnerabilities in an Urbanizing and Climate Uncertain Environment for the Case of a Secondary City in Thailand

A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About