Emergency response: an investigation on a possibility of establishing valuable flood protecting infrastructures in Bangkok Online publication date: Fri, 18-Jul-2014
by Thavalit Kampanartkosol
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management (IJASM), Vol. 6, No. 2, 2013
Abstract: This paper aims to study the flooding event in Bangkok in 2011. Its objective is to seek for the possibility of creating the new flood preventing infrastructures, which may help reducing the flood impacts to the city in future crises, as well as to create a plan regarding to the creation of them in term of locations and sizes. The investigations on Bangkok's population and critical infrastructures suggested that the central area of Bangkok should be protected. As a result, the locations of the proposing infrastructures were selected accordingly and they are expecting to protect 76.02% of the population. Finally, it is concluded that this investment can be considered as worthwhile investment, in the case where there is a possibility that similar disaster may happen in the future, since the beneficial analysis showed that the value of preventable damages significantly exceeds the costs and expenses of the proposing infrastructures.
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