A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography
This research describes and analyses changing socio-economic and environmental patterns and their reciprocal linkages for Nang Rong district, a poor, rural district in northeast Thailand, during the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Nationally, this was a period of dramatic economic growth that was dramatically interrupted by the Asian financial crisis of 1997. By looking back to rural geographies in a marginalized region during Thailand's "boom" period, this research provides a regionally-based understanding of social and environmental change
whose theoretically foundations and methodologies can be applied in other developing regions experiencing pronounced economic growth yet with striking rural-urban inequalities.
Research questions deal with themes relevant to development issues in Thailand, particularly within a rural context during the key period of Thailand's national economic "miracle" — the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. These themes include: (a) assessment and variation of perceived needs for household improvement by households in 1984 at the beginning of Thailand's "boom" decade; (b) inter-village variation of socio-economic status and its relationship with villagelevel descriptive profiles that include measures of social, environmental, and spatial variability; (c) intra-village inequalities with respect to land and asset holdings; (d) analysis of landscape fragmentation and agricultural diversification over space and time as an adaptive economic strategy to flexibly cope with fluctuating rainfall patterns; (e) the impact of demographic change and cooking fuel patterns on interannual
forest degradation; and (0 relationships between intra-annual vegetation change on the landscape and social, environmental, and spatial characteristics.
This research is grounded in theories draw n from geography, ecology, peasant studies, and economics. Methodologically, this research develops new techniques to link non-spatial social survey and census data to spatial datasets at the village-level using various approaches to model functional village regions in the absence of cadastral and village boundary data. It integrates a rich social database containing demographic and economic information at the household and village levels within a GIS database containing environmental and geographical data layers. The research examines selected issues related to socio-economic and environmental patterns in Nang Rong using descriptive analysis, spatial analysis, statistical techniques, and data visualization.
A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in GeographyThis research describes and analyses changing socio-economic and environmental patterns and their reciprocal linkages for Nang Rong district, a poor, rural district in northeast Thailand, during the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Nationally, this was a period of dramatic economic growth that was dramatically interrupted by the Asian financial crisis of 1997. By looking back to rural geographies in a marginalized region during Thailand's "boom" period, this research provides a regionally-based understanding of social and environmental changewhose theoretically foundations and methodologies can be applied in other developing regions experiencing pronounced economic growth yet with striking rural-urban inequalities.Research questions deal with themes relevant to development issues in Thailand, particularly within a rural context during the key period of Thailand's national economic "miracle" — the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. These themes include: (a) assessment and variation of perceived needs for household improvement by households in 1984 at the beginning of Thailand's "boom" decade; (b) inter-village variation of socio-economic status and its relationship with villagelevel descriptive profiles that include measures of social, environmental, and spatial variability; (c) intra-village inequalities with respect to land and asset holdings; (d) analysis of landscape fragmentation and agricultural diversification over space and time as an adaptive economic strategy to flexibly cope with fluctuating rainfall patterns; (e) the impact of demographic change and cooking fuel patterns on interannualforest degradation; and (0 relationships between intra-annual vegetation change on the landscape and social, environmental, and spatial characteristics.
This research is grounded in theories draw n from geography, ecology, peasant studies, and economics. Methodologically, this research develops new techniques to link non-spatial social survey and census data to spatial datasets at the village-level using various approaches to model functional village regions in the absence of cadastral and village boundary data. It integrates a rich social database containing demographic and economic information at the household and village levels within a GIS database containing environmental and geographical data layers. The research examines selected issues related to socio-economic and environmental patterns in Nang Rong using descriptive analysis, spatial analysis, statistical techniques, and data visualization.
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