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Checked15 October 2026 · Central Thailand and Bangkok, 2011 floods
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Research question
How do cross-level power relations shape flood governance?
Method and context
Document analysis and interviews with officials, academics and community leaders.
Study summary
Uses scalar politics to analyze incomplete decentralization.
Findings
Authors identify centralized resources and fragmentation weakening local capacity and distributing risks unequally.
Contribution
Connects assigned responsibilities with actual authority and resources.
Interpretation limits
Use limitation: historical explanation, not an assessment of today’s Thai system.
A question for further research
Our question: which authority-sharing arrangements improve provincial–local EOC decisions?
A starting point for a study design: extend the literature search, specify methods and outcomes, and assess ethics requirements for the data and participants.
Connect evidence to KSEC / OBE
Project-proposed critical-appraisal evidence, not research findings or accreditation criteria from the original authors.
- K
- Explain the question, concepts and findings with locators in the original.
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- Compare methods, variables and limitations with another study before designing a test or CPX.
- E
- Separate reported results from your proposals, cite originals and examine implications for vulnerable groups.
- C
- Record responses to critique and revisions after new evidence. Observe behaviour repeatedly, not from a single reading.
Related learning modules
- EOC, common operating picture and crisis decisions
- Thailand floods 2011: interconnected impacts and recovery
Related knowledge domains
Original-study citation
Danny Marks; Louis Lebel (2016). Disaster governance and the scalar politics of incomplete decentralization: Fragmented and contested responses to the 2011 floods in Central Thailand. Habitat International, 52, 57–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.08.024
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