Conditions influenced the best practices of city development by public sector
Introduction
The local government organization is a part of the government administration, which is based on the principle of decentralization. According to the Act of Parliament in the plan and the process of
decentralization given to the local government organizations in 1999, the government section transferred its mission to the organization which has been referred to the task that the local government
organizations obtained from the central government and the provincial government section. The mission has been classified into six aspects of public services namely: 1. Infrastructure 2. the promotion of quality
of life 3. community organizing and maintaining peace and order 4. planning of investment promotion, commerce and tourism 5. Management and conservation of natural resources and environment, and 6.
culture, custom and local wisdoms.
In particular, the development of infrastructure has to decentralize to the public who take action and respond to the needs of the community. According to the sayings, “The water flows, Bright light,
Good roads” which indicate the quality of life in the community for a long time and also indicate the importance of infrastructure system of the community. Today, the local government organizations survey
the people’s needs of public services or their complaint data about the public services, it can be found that the urgent priority demands are building and maintenance of public utilities such as roads, bridges,
footpaths, drainage sewer, water supply, lighting, public parks, canals and ditches.
Currently, there are several constraints in doing the infrastructure such as budget limitation because the construction and maintenance of public utilities requires a lot of money, whereas the local
government organizations have limited annual budget. Furthermore, these organizations are controlled in terms of loaning or borrowing money to invest and are banned to set on long-termed budget in several
consecutive years of investment.
Most of the localities have to wrest supported money from the government grant-in-aid money projects. This aspect requires major political party lines or connections so this is a much challenging
limitation for local administrators. Another limitation is the limitation of management, especially the sevice of public utilities that has various types of them which can be administrated and managed by using
the market mechanism; many private sectors can bid to run the projects and keep of manage the service fees from the people. However, most of the local government organizations lack of the knowledge and
experience in the management and administration their public utilities in commercial fields so the local government organizations dare not start to run the projects. The last limitation in not having transparency;
corruptions and hidden benefits in the construction, improvement, maintenance of local and central government public utility system. There were plenty of corruptions which occurred widely; therefore,
people distrust and oppose to invest in these projects though there is a huge demand for them.
From the mentioned issues, every local government organization realizes and is also aware of the needs in infrastructure of the community. However, what we want to do and what we can actually do
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may be different. This issue can how often challenge the local administrators’ abilities. Therefore, the researcher is interested in studying the process of building confidence in the preparation of the
infrastructure of the local government organizations in the northeast area. The results from this study will be used to effectively develop the infrastructure of the local government organizations and respond the
community’s needs.
Objectives
1. To study the level of confidence of the public on the local government organizations in the preparation of the infrastructure.
2. To study the causal factors affect the confidence of the public in the preparation of the infrastructure of the local government organizations.
Literature Review
The research: “Process of Building Confidence in the Preparation of the Infrastructure of the Local Government Organizations in the Northeast Region” uses concepts theories and researches as guidelines
as follows:
1. Concepts and theories of confidence 2. Concepts of decentralization
3. Concepts of infrastructure 4. Conditions and background information of the study area Related Research
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Level if confidence of public in the preparation of the
infrastructure
Causal factors affecting to confidence
Infrastructure - Roads
- Water system - Electricity system
- Canals, Ditches - Footpaths
- Public parks
Guidelines to build confidence in the Preparation of the infrastructure of the local government
organizations
Conceptual Framework
Methodology
This research is a quantitative and qualitative research and is determined by the following procedures:
1. The population samples and sampling methods 2. Data collection
3. The research instruments used in the study
Population Samples and Sampling Methods
The population of this study was individuals who live in the area of responsibility of the local government organizations in the northeast. The study was defined the study population into 4 groups.
1. The board of administrators including the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor. By using the purposive sampling which were qualified to relate to the position, duty and role management and have the support
in the infrastructure.
2. Government sectors, Officers including the Deputy Municipal Clerk, Chief of the Electrician Division, Electrical Officers, Civil Engineering Department and utility section. By using purposive sampling
which were qualified to have s supervisory role, responsibility of maintenance the roads, bridges, public parks, setting locations and electrical services.
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3. Community leaders including the President, the Vice-president of the community. By using purposive sampling which were qualified to have a supervisory role, responsibility of maintenance the
roads, bridges, public parks, setting locations and electrical services.
4. People who live in the area. The study areas will be divided by the population of the area into 2 districts and select 2 areas from each district as follows:
- Upper Northeast Region, including Ban Phai Town Municipality, Amphoe Ban Phai, Khon KaenProvince
Nonsamrong Town Municipality, Amphoe Muang, Udon Thani Province - Lower Northeast Region, including
Sikhiu Town Municipality, Amphoe Sikhiu, Nakhonratchasima Province. Phibun Mangsahan Town Municipality, Amphoe Phibun Mangsahan, Ubon Ratchathani Province
Data Collection
1. Document Research: This study explores the various documents involving in both Primary and secondary documents in order to bring to discuss and analyze in conjunction with the information
obtained from in-depth-interview and focus group
2. Questionnaire: The questionnaire was used to measure the level of confidence of the public towards the local government organizations in the preparation of the infrastructure and find out the
causal factors that affect the confidence of the public in the preparation of the infrastructure of the organizations.
3. In-depth Interview: This method was used to interview the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Municipal Clerk, Director of Engineering Department, Officers of Engineering Department, Civil Engineering Sector,
Department of Utility and community leaders in the community. The population samples were selected by using purposive sampling which is a consideration of the objectives of the study.
4. Focus Group Discussion: This method was to talk to the people, brainstorm together in order to obtain the information for analyzing. The group discussion was divided into 8 groups. Each group
consists of 6 members.
5. Non-Participation Observation: The observations are sparse, not to participate in the activities. There are observations that are not aware of the observer and aware of the observer. The observer will
observe these issues, such as diabetic lifestyle, livelihood, well-being of the community, village meeting, tradition joining, rituals and festive events and important events of the study community.
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Research Instruments
The instruments used in this study were as follows: Qualitative: Tools used to collect data collection, namely semi-structured interview.
Quantitative: Questionnaires were used to collect data. The statistics was used to analyze data was Path Analysis.
Finding
The First objective was to study the level of confidence of the public on the local government organizations in the preparation of the infrastructure.
1. The nature of the involvement of the public in the preparation of the infrastructure. Due to the urging of thought or consciousness. By institutions or organizations Presents workshops and seminars
for community leaders and citizens, both formal and informal. By nature of its continuous years. With funding from several sources. So when the municipality carried out various projects. The public suspicion
or doubt in the transparency of such abuse. Or the amount spent perhaps too much so.
2. It is evident that the form of participation of the public in the preparation of the infrastructure of the organization. By implementing the public itself is possible. And effective form Therefore, the role of
the municipality is exploring the potential of local communities. And allows them to express themselves Do not interrupt or a community in a negative light that is hostile to the state in order. People will be
able to develop a strong and monitoring local authorities more effectively.
The Section objective was to study the causal factors affect the confidence of the public in the preparation of the infrastructure of the local government organizations.
3. In the public sector took part in the preparation of the infrastructure of the municipality. The province There are some limitations and some issues to keep in mind is.
Firstly, local Currently, the community or public organization has strengthened quite a few. In proportion to the number of local government units across the country. This may be due to the
complexity of social and everyday tasks that much easier. As well as attracting the attention of the people to spend more time with their matter, such as leisure activities and hobbies, which has attracted
over. Thailand has made people more individualistic.
Second, the direct expression of the people can sometimes lead to a state of confrontation between aboriginal people and the loss of benefits, which could lead to violence. Especially those who
play a role in the expression of the people.
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Third, government officials, some still accustomed to the state as a key player in managing the various aspects of society, officials may look at the expression of the people in a negative way and
behaviors that hinder the growth of the role of the public sector. At the same time the expression of the self, it might be motivated by a reward. Or get the wrong information. The political interests of any party.
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Globalization and the Enforcement of Local Administrative Regulations on Open Air Burning
Damorn Kumtrai
Lecturer, Law Program, Faculty of Integrated Social Science, Khon Kaen University, Nong Khai Campus damokukku.ac.th
Abstract
The transboundary haze pollution problem is one of the important issues in the international society. The globalization concept has been brought to deal with the problem through the international
laws providing common standards. Such international law, however, has a limitation on the enforcement and the monitoring system. The local administration organizations play an important role on the haze
pollution management. The operation of local administration organizations shows the interaction between the local community and the impact of globalization which has driven the enforcement of the
legal instruments in the global and local levels. This paper explores how the transboundary haze pollution problem has been tackled by the power of the globalization with the shared consciousness of
the people rather than relying only on the legal instruments.
Keyword: Transboundary haze pollution, Globalization, Law enforcement, Local administration organizations
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Introduction
Globalization is generally interpreted in the context of the liberalization of the economic, culture and the cyber network, while the environmental concern related to the globalization has received less
attention from the public society. To some extent, the environmental concern in a global trend has been transformed to the campaign of quality of the city life for instance, cycling to save the gasoline, or the
use of fabric bag to reduce the emission. In the aspect of the international relations, the environmental concern at the global level is the consequence of the globalization since it draws a common
consciousness of global citizens to share the same concern.
The features of globalization in term of the global ecology include the causes of environmental change from the manifestation and the globalizing activity, which was driven by the political policy
through the role of media and advertising. Newel, 2012: 7-8 It is undeniable that in the modern society our perception on environmental concern has been shared by people around the world. The media
which unify the whole world as a same unit takes a leading role in the spreading the information.
Although the transboundary pollution was primary known in the 1930s Halvorssen, 2013, p. 29 the environmental concern was concrete appeared in the early twenty-first-century with the concerns
about the world energy consumption and the climate change. Newel, 2012, p. 22 Since then the world politics on environmental policy has been operated through the international environmental law to
create the global standards and the international binding instruments among the states. Unlike the domestic laws, the international law is a globalization instrument, it does not come from the national
legislative organizations nor have the same enforcement’s levels. The international relations principles and the international politics are the key factors in the enforcement of the international law. Both the
international law and the regional law will be effectively enforced by the support of the government policy. At this stage, the notion of the state’s sovereignty has been challenged. Nevertheless, in the
modern concept of international relations, non-state actor is recognized as one of the alternative choices for the transnational network development including the transnational problem for the environment. The
movement of the civil society and the sub-organization of government have paved the way for the unification of the member of global society. Keck and Sikkink, 2012, pp. 221 - 224
Thailand in particular has faced the crisis of transboundary air pollution which has been addressed also as a global concern. One of the severe areas cover the northern part of Thailand which
received the impact of the transboundary haze pollution from Myanmar. The research on transnational haze pollution of Suthini Dontri based on the information of satellite survey reveals that Myanmar has
the thermal hot-spot at 41 per cent of the Southeast Asia region and the cause of the hot-spot mainly the result of the open air burning. Sanjit, 2013 Such haze pollution from the open air burning in
Myanmar has spread through the country’s border and damage the people’s health in the northern part of the country. www.pcd.go.th Various laws and governments’ policies to control of open air burning
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have been legislated and issued for the enforcement in the country. Even though these tools have never been achieved in resolving the transboundary air pollution problem mainly because of the territorial
principle of domestic laws and policies, this paper aims to explore the role of the local government organizations in addressing the international environmental problem with the driving force of the
globalization.
Thai government has decentralized the power to the local administrative organization for the enactment of the local regulations to control the open air burning in their specific control areas. This
situation has shown how to address the global environmental concern through the local laws channel. Even though there is no direct linkage between the international law and the local laws, these local
regulations have been unintentionally issued in parallel with the trend of international and regional controlling regulations. The situation somehow shows the power of globalization which mainly based on
the international law to the local governmental organizations in the country. The study of this likeness can explain the impact of the globalization that supports the law enforcement at the global and the local
level. To explain the impact of globalization to the enforcement of local administrative regulations in particular, I divide the impact of globalization in three aspects, firstly on the transboundary haze pollution
problems as a global concern, secondly on the Southeast Asia Management on Transboundary Haze Pollution as a regional concern and finally on the local administrative laws as a local concern.