%0 Thesis
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%A Laeni, N.
%D 2017
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%T Framing Resilience in Bangkok Flood Risk Management
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1234/
%X Globally, the urbanized regions in developing countries are struggling to  anticipate and incorporate increasing flood risks due to rising impacts of  climate change in their urban management agendas. Consequentially,  resilience is increasingly being considered as a promising concept in  planning that emphasises the capacity to resist, absorb and adjust  continuously to changing flood risks. The aim of this paper is to  investigate how the urbanized regions in developing countries attempt to  adopt the resilience concept in their urban planning and flood risk  management policies. The central case study is Bangkok Resilience  Strategy. This paper adopts a framing approach to analyze how policy  framing guides resilience policy interventions in Bangkok’s urban  management. In Bangkok, the resilience concept is adopted as a broad  solution for a wide range of urban problems safeguarding urban activities  from flood and other disturbances. In this regard, Bangkok Resilience  Strategy highlights the economic competitiveness as the major desired  outcome from resilience building. Drawing on an evolutionary perspective  on resilience, this paper concludes that resilience policy adoption could be  used as an opportunity to continuously revaluate and readjust existing  planning approaches for addressing both physical and social vulnerabilities to floods.