Leadership in slum community development in Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA), Thailand | |
| Author | Tomuro, Kozue |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.UE-06-05 |
| Subject(s) | Leadership Thailand Bangkok 0 Slums Thailand Bangkok |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Slum community development by participatory approach is a historically newly challenge on urban planning and management so that addresses sustainable development. In Thailand, urban slum community has been beginning to be recognized as one of important factor and influenced on socially and politically, especially since 1980s. Of late years slum communities themselves, called Community Based Organizations (CBOs), are much focused as a main actor on the development process. However improvement of socioeconomic and environmental condition is not notable and the number of slum community in Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA) is still increasing over 1,700. Then this study focuses on community leader who is key person on community development and reveal and exam their leadership in community structure. This study was designed with two phase data collection and the analysis; qualitative data at six slum communities in BMA by field survey, and quantitative data at 161 community leaders in BMA which was collected by post-questionnaire. Through the sequential exploratory strategy, this study present two kind of analysis results; description of leadership with Organization Assessment (OA) and modeling in each six slum communities, and examination of applicability of magnitude of hypothesis from case studies to city level. Through different dimension of analysis, it was revealed and concluded that current tendency of leadership in social and administrative contexts; increasing of leader's responsibility and work from traditional/informal works to bureaucratic/ formal one which requires more higher leader's socioeconomic availability, limitation of women leader within smaller and poorer community scale and limitation of land tenure status, especially land owned private with infirm law and management. Finally this study recommends that supporting opportunities which can reduce leader's increasing roles and burdens such as trainings including youth and women. And identify and simplify of administrative bottle-neck for slum community leader such as complex procedure on support for community development |
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Urban Environmental and Management (UE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Sajor, Edsel; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Perera, L.A.S. Ranjith;Earth, Barbara ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 |