Bangkok Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 03:58
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Author(s):
Lead author: Chirapol Sintunawa, Contributing authors: Jinhua Zhang, Purna Chandra Lall Rajbhandari and Suwanna Jungrungrueng
Year:
2009
City:
Bangkok
Publisher:
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Green Leaf Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme
Pages:
90
Summary:

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This report attempts to explain why and how climate change is affecting Bangkok. It raises awareness of actions that can be taken to lessen the impacts of climate change in Bangkok. The report sets out a number of adaptation options for the city, including: improving the local public health infrastructure; establishing early warning systems; and implementing stricter zoning and building codes.

Bangkok contains close to 15 per cent of the entire population of Thailand, or close to 10 million people in real terms.