Tan- Revised Statement and Bibliography (for now)

I have below revised the statement for my thesis research by further specifying an event in history which I think could possibly play a major role in the paper: 

The Greater Chao Phraya Project (1953- 1981) is considered as Asia’s largest irrigation project. It is proof of Thai civilizations’ dependency on river systems for economic and social growth, with its initial purpose in exporting rice to alleviate world-wide food shortages after the Second World War. However, while the project resulted in sizeable productivity gain, it did not justify the expenditure to build the systems causing several negative aspects, the major being higher demand for water leading to water shortages.

To benefit from natural ecology requires great concern for consequences that arise naturally, out of human control that thus the Greater Chao Phraya project might have lacked. Could this be proof of an interaction between social and natural ecology that is deficient in linkage with one another? If the project had resulted or played a role similar to a new ecological system that “ties” the river systems and its major benefiters together, would the scheme have resulted more successfully?





Bibliography: 

• Environmental Research Insutitute Chulalongkorn University. Canal. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, 1994

• Molle, Francois, and Thippawal Srijantr. Thailand’s Rice Bowl: Perspective on Agricultural and Social Change in the Chao Phraya Delta. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2003.

• Onsuwan Eyre, Chureekamol. Prehistoric and Proto-Historic Communities in the Eastern Upper Chao Phraya River Valley, Thailand: Analysis of Site Chronology, Settlement Patterns, and Land Use. Pennsylvania: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2006.

• Sternstein, L. Plan of Bangkok B.E. 2479 (A.D. 1936). Bangkok: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, 1986.

• Tomosugi, Takashi. Changing Features of a Rice-Growing Village in Central Thailand: A Fixed Point Study from 1967-1993. Tokyo: Center for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, 1995.

• Van Beek, Steve. The Chao Phya River in Transition. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995.