Thanawat Bremard
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Thanawat Bremard is a doctoral student from the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development based both in the Joint Research Unit “Water Management, Actors, Territories” in Montpellier, France and in the CSDS, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand. With a background in socio-anthropology, he has been working on issues of water governance in Thailand since 2017, with a particular focus on the Bangkok Metropolitan Region for his thesis. His current research focuses on the politics of groundwater and subsidence governance, the spatialized decision-making around flood governance in eastern Bangkok and the institutional interplay around urban river governance.
Recent Publications with CSDS:
Politics of urban riverbank development: the contested Chao Phraya River Promenade project in Bangkok (from Political Ecology in Asia: Plural Knowledge and Contested Development in a More-Than-Human World Confere, Bangkok, 10-11 October 2019)
A political ecology of Bangkok waters: the institutional interplay between subsidence, floods and water infrastructure (from CU Graduate Student Seminar Series 'The Water-Food-Energy Nexus', Bangkok, 21 May 2019)