Tsunami
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| ICT for Happiness in Thailand: Revisiting Past, Understanding Present and Envisioning Future Roles of NECTEC | Pansak Sirirachatapong | Illustrates how information and communication technology (ICT) development in Thailand evolves over the years. Highlights the role of the National Eletronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) which was entrusted to oversee the direction of ICT development for a decade. Focuses how NECTEC activities have contributed, through technology generation and implementation, to the happiness for Thai citizens in various ways. Discusses how ICT was ...Continue Reading | English | 73665 |
| The Globalisation of Executives and Economies: Lessons from Thailand | Gives an overview of Thailand and the Thai economy, describing the nature of competitiveness and globalization and the ways in which a new generation of executives has adjusted to changing realities in the business environment. Looks at the globalization and evolution of business management and leadership in Thailand. Presents the case of consumer emancipation and economic development. Examines crucial industrial areas and the impact of global ...Continue Reading | English | 73581 | |
| Post Tsunami Reconstruction and Peace Building in Aceh: Political Impacts and Potential Risks | Tjhin, Christine Susanna | Illustrates the political development and potential impacts/risks in the post-tsunami Aceh reconstruction process, particularly after the signing of the peace agreement in Helsinki, August 2005. Touches briefly on the 30 decades of conflict in Aceh, and identifies aspects of conflict in Aceh post-MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). Highlights the effect of tsunami toward government's policies, how the policy has shifted and how the political con ...Continue Reading | English | 73539 |
| Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities: The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program | Narrates the forming of the US National Tsunami hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) in 1997, covering its accomplishment and future goals. Contains the papers on warning guidance that detail the development of a Tsunami forecasting capability and upgrades in tsunami warning operations. Covers the hazard assessment that describes the development of tsunami inundation maps and their use in tsunami warnings. Includes the papers on tsunami hazard mi ...Continue Reading | English | 73499 | |
| Adjustment and Recovery in Thailand: Two Years after the Tsunami | Bhanupong Nidhiprabha | Describes briefly the damage and costs of the December 2004 tsunami, covering an examination of the immediate response after the disaster. Discusses short-term economic effects of the tsunami and the experience of rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery, including aid and assistance. Contains results from a field survey on tsunami-affected community perceptions and behavior, collecting the data from displaced and non-displaced individuals, ...Continue Reading | English | 73494 |
| Proceedings of the Workshop on Coastal Area Planning and Management in Asian Tsunami-affected Countries, 27-29 September 2006, Bangkok, Thailand | Workshop on Coastal Area Planning and Management in Asian Tsunami-affected Countries (2006 : Bangkok, Thailand) | Indicates tsunami impacts and the responsibilities of tsunami-affected governments, related to the role of incorporating sound integrated coastal planning and management (ICM). Reviews trends in land and resource use and land tenure, including information on pre-and post-tsunami coastal planning and land use policies in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Provides country papers of the eight Asian countries ...Continue Reading | English | 73490 |
| Master Plan for Tsunami Evacuation | Aims to protect lives and properties of the people and to establish a systematic and efficient evacuation procedures which ensure safety without people's panicking and confusion. Describes the procedures, regarding identification of tsunami-susceptible areas, division of responsibility among agencies concerned, and supporting organizations. Emphasizes implementation steps on pre-, during and post-disaster phase, covering line of command, and co ...Continue Reading | Multilanguage | 73484 | |
| Rapid Assessment of the Tsunami Impact on Marine Resources in the Andaman Sea, Thailand | Gives information on the cooperative effort among government agencies in charge of marine resources management, scientists and concern citizens, to investigate the damage on marine living resources along the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand after the December 2004 tsunami. Assesses the effect on some important marine resources, regarding coral reefs, seagrass beds, marine endangered species, and coastal water quality | English | 73477 | |
| Aceh-Nias Reconstruction and Rehabilitation: Progress and Challenges at the End of 2006 | Nazara, Suahasil | Examines the recovery and reconstruction experience of Indonesia after the December 2004 Asian tsunami that destroyed much of Aceh Island, inflicting human fatalities, and destroying much of the island's housing and infrastructure. Mentions the earthquake followed in the neighbouring island of Nias. Reports the reconstruction programme launched by the government with pledges from international donors to meet reconstruction costs. Considers how ...Continue Reading | English | 73436 |
| A People's Agenda?: Post-Tsunami Aid in Aceh | Assesses the rehabilitation and reconstruction programs in post-tsunami Aceh from the responses of ordinarry Acehnese. Indicates many constraints in reconstruction and develoment faced by aid donors and implementers, related to consultation during pre-project needs assessments, and during project design. Includes information on donor and Indonesian anti-corruption mechanisms, communications pitfalls, land disputes, and inflation and inequality ...Continue Reading | English | 73356 | |
| Tsunami Aftermath: Violations of Women's Human Rights Thailand | Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk | Presents the findings and the recommendations of the survey of women's human rights violations in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami aftermath in Thailand. Collects data from October 2005 to February 2006 through interviews and focus group discussions and visits to temporary shelters. Documents women rights' violations and discrimination against women, and identifies how state and non-state actors responded to the tsunami disaster from ...Continue Reading | English | 73259 |
| Global Survey of Early Warning Systems: An Assessment of Capacities, Gaps and Opportunities towards Building a Comprehensive Global Early Warning System for All Natural Hazards | Highlights the significant global progress to assess risks and to generate and communicate predictions and warnings. Presents background of the early warning systems for natural hazards. Describes the existing capacities and gaps revealed by the survey in terms of the risk knowledge, monitoring and warning services, dissemination and communication, and response capability, summarized for each of the four elements of early warning systems. Reco ...Continue Reading | English | 73254 | |
| Clean or Corrupt: Tsunami Aid in Aceh | James, Elizabeth | Reveals the damages in the Indonesian province of Aceh caused by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, ensuing with a large amount of donation from government, nongovernmental organizations, and international agencies for Aceh's reconstruction and rehabilitation. Examines the state of high levels of corruption in Indonesia and the challenges for the Indoensian government and the international donor community in ensuring that corruption ...Continue Reading | English | 73222 |
| Asian Tsunami and Social Work Practice: Recovery and Rebuilding | Aims to investigate recovery for disabled people in recent Tsunami disasters on December 2004. Examines the connections between disability and disaster from a global perspective, covering the case studies on the Asian Tsunami and the Hurricane Katrina about disaster preparedness in poor communities. Explores the well-being of children in the Tsunami-affected region, including the state's and civil society's responses in India. Reveals the real ...Continue Reading | English | 73119 | |
| Tourism Economic Impact: Perception of Local Residents in Pkuket | Arisara Tantivit | Studies the perception of different groups of local residents in Phuket towards economic impacts of tourism pre and post Tsunami, distributing 370 questionnaires to local Thai residents and 30 questionnaires to local foreign residents. Discusses the studied results, focusing on the respondents' ethnicity (foreigners, Thai, Thai-Chinese, and Thai Sea-Gypsy) and religion (Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and others). Considers also their economic de ...Continue Reading | English | 73112 |
| Tsunami and Andaman Cultural Heritage | Saowalak Phongsatha Poshyanandana | Conveys experiences of surviors from the tsunami attack on 26 December 2004. Studies the damages to cultural heritage along the Andaman Coast, consdiering the human settlement, history, archaeological site in relation to natural disasters. Analyzes archaeological sites in Ranong, Phangnga, Phuket, and Krabi after teh tsunami. Introduces the ritual of the sea gipsy in the Andaman Sea, focusing on the boat-floating ritual in Phuket. Suggests me ...Continue Reading | Thai | 73084 |
| Australia and Indonesia: A Neighbour's Perspective | Mahony, Inez | Determines how Indonesia and Australia have been portrayed in each other's newsprint media, exploring what influenced those protrayals. Investigates the hypothesis that substantial social, political, and cultural changes would have positively affected media representations of each nation. Hypothesizes that there would be fewer negative images of each nation in newsprint media. Employs case studies of articles relating to Australia and Indonesi ...Continue Reading | English | 72943 |
| Knowledge Commitment Action: Against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific | Contains the comprehensive discussions, debates, and conclusions on various issues relevant to the fight againt corruption in Asia and the Pacific presented at the conference Reducing Inequality and Promoting Growth : Driving Down Corruption . Highlights major achievements and new challenges in the fight against corruption in Asia and the Pacific. Focuses on how support for anti-corruption reform from donors and international organizations is ...Continue Reading | English | 72903 | |
| The Ongoing Plight of Migrant Workers | Sanisuda Ekachai | Reveals the plight of the Tsunami-hit migrant workers in Thailand, questioning on their real number in the tsunami-hit areas (registered and unregistered workers), and number of the dead migrant workers. Indicates the abuse of migrant workers by the police, how they were cheated, and the problems on retrieving the bodies of their relatives. Mentions the helps of various human rights groups for migrant workers, eg. identifying the bodies of thei ...Continue Reading | English | 72667 |
| The Struggle Continues: The Effects of the Tsunami on Women Are Only Just Being Recognised by the Government and Aid Agencies | Krittiya Wongtavavimarn | Reports the struggle of women who have suffered from the tsunami disaster since December 26, 2004. Analyzes how government assistance for tsunami-affected women remains insufficient over two years after the tsunami, arguing its cause from lacking gender perspective. Indicates the vulnerable groups during disasters, such as ethnic minorities, migrant workers, and sea gypsies. Analzyes the need for strong commitment from the government and NGOs ...Continue Reading | English | 72650 |
