Disaster governance and the scalar politics of incomplete decentralization: Fragmented and contested responses to the 2011 floods in Central Thailand

Habitat International

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 57-66

  Marks, Danny ^a   Lebel, Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

2011 Thailand floods; Disaster governance; Incomplete decentralization; Politics of scale; Thai flood management

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICS; REFORM PROCESS;

THAILAND;

EID: 84951877426     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.08.024     Document Type: Article

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