期刊名称：International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy
印刷版ISSN：2330-7528
电子版ISSN：2330-7536
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：24-33
DOI：10.11648/j.ijepp.20160402.11
语种：English
出版社：Science Publishing Group
摘要：Environmental Policy is a major mechanism for the government to drive the public administration on environmental management. In Thailand, some citizens were significantly affected from the inadequacy of Public Participation in Environmental Policy and leaded to widespread conflicts about their interests in society. Although the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B. E. 2550 (2007) attempted to broadly open the opportunities on Public Participation in the environmental management but the interest conflicts were still existed. This article studied on Thailand Environmental Policy, especially examined the Citizen Participation Practice in the Environmental Policy Formulation which would contributed the further development in public administration aspect. The current national environmental policy, the Environmental Quality Management Plan B. E. 2555-2559 (2012-2016), was selected as the case study and analyzed to examine Citizen Participation Practice under the policymaking context by the principle of citizen participation “Perceptions of Stakeholders and Planners: the ladder of citizen participation” and the concept of environmental policymaking in government. Related documents and researches, environmental laws and regulations, and policies were reviewed, analyzed and synthesized for appropriately conducting in the study. The results were found that Thailand had an appropriate framework on citizen participation in the Environmental Policymaking Process regarding the provisions of constitution but it was limited by the provisions of older laws and policies which were enacted before the 2007 Constitution was promulgated. All of Citizen Participation Practices were located in the category of Tokenism, where the citizens became involved but only to certain extent. This is not meaningful in term of citizen control which should be appropriately conducted in the democracy society. Thailand did not have Citizen Participation Practices in the category of Nonparticipation and the current national environmental policy open an opportunity for amendment on Environmental Legislation. These findings were benefit to the better development of Citizen Participation Practice in Thailand Environmental Policy, which would be opened the participatory opportunity on the interest conflict resolution in the future.
关键词：Thailand Environmental Policy; Citizen Participation Practice; Policymaking Process; Public Participation
