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Checked15 October 2026 · Chao Phraya industrial areas and global supply-chain connections
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Research question
What amplified economic losses in the 2011 Thai floods?
Method and context
Background survey, in-depth interviews and root-cause analysis.
Study summary
Investigates industrial-area vulnerability within connected supply chains.
Findings
Authors link losses to planning, poorly risk-assessed settlement and supplier relationships.
Contribution
Extends company-level lessons toward regional collaboration.
Interpretation limits
Reader limitation: abstract access cannot assess evidence strength for each cause.
A question for further research
Our question: can area business-continuity planning reduce small suppliers’ downtime?
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Connect evidence to KSEC / OBE
Project-proposed critical-appraisal evidence, not research findings or accreditation criteria from the original authors.
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- Record responses to critique and revisions after new evidence. Observe behaviour repeatedly, not from a single reading.
Related learning modules
- Business and service continuity across an area
- Thailand floods 2011: interconnected impacts and recovery
Related knowledge domains
Original-study citation
Tadashi Nakasu; Mamoru Miyamoto; Ruttiya Bhula-or; Tartat Mokkhamakkul; Sutee Anantsuksomsri; Yot Amornkitvikai; Sutpratana Duangkaew; Toshio Okazumi (2020). Finding the Devastating Economic Disaster’s Root Causes of the 2011 Flood in Thailand: Why Did Supply Chains Make the Disaster Worse?. Journal of Disaster Research, 15(5), 556–570. https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2020.p0556
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