STATE OF LAND AND LAND USE IN THAILAND · 2018-01-18 · STATE OF LAND AND LAND USE IN THAILAND By: National Statistics Office, Office of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

STATE OF LAND AND LAND USE IN THAILAND

By: National Statistics Office, Office of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy and Planning

Regional expert workshop on land accounting for SDGs monitoring and reporting

Bangkok, 25-27 September 2017

TOPICS• Types and challenges of land use in Thailand

• The National Policies and Strategies

Percentages of Land Use 2010 - 2013

Agriculture54%

Forest34%

Community5%

Water 3% Others 4%

Agriculture

Forest

Community

Water

Others

State Land Invaded

17.01

16.76

17.16

16.34 16.37 16.34

33.15

32.66

33.44

31.58 31.6231.57

30.5

31

31.5

32

32.5

33

33.5

34

15.80

16.00

16.20

16.40

16.60

16.80

17.00

17.20

17.40

2000 2004 2008 2013 2014 2015

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Forest Area (Hectares) % forest/Total

Causes

• Invade for agriculture reasons

• Occupied state land by Landlords illegally

• Make fake/illegal land certificate

Challenges of Land Use • City plan and urban area expansion

• Law enforcement and economic instrument

• Landownership

• Land database

• Soil quality

• Climate change

• Mineral consumption

• Electricity generation

• 12 ministries (out of 20) involve with state land

The National Policies and Strategies

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Land and Land Use Management Plan 2017 - 2021

National Economic and Social Development Plan 2017 - 2021

แผนจัดการคุณภาพส่ิงแวดล้อม พ.ศ. 2560 - 2564

Prosperity

The National Strategy

Green Growth

Philosophy of

Sufficiency Economy

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Land and Land Use Management Plan 2017 - 2021

1. Keep balance between conservation and utilization of land

2. Improve land use and soil quality beneficially

3. Provide land to the poor equally4. Manage land and soil efficiently

Land Accounts Status in Thailand and

NSO role

Content

• Thailand Statistical System and role of NSO

• Data existing related to Land accounts

• Thailand’s NSDI

• Challenges

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Thailand Statistical System

• A decentralized statistical system

• Thailand NSO is responsible for

– collecting and publishing fundamental statistics for national development

– coordinate with line ministries to formulate 21 sector Statistics Development Plans

• Each province has provincial statistical bureau in charge of collecting data for periodical surveys of NSO and coordinate with statistical agencies within provinces

Thailand Statistical Master Plan

Natural Resource and Environment Statistics Development Plan

• Was formulated by Natural Resource and Environment Statistics Committee which chaired by Permanent Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment Ministry(NREM) and secretariat by office of permanent secretary of NREM and NSO.

• Consist of – Policies related to natural resources and environment

in line with National Economic and Social Development Plan

– Relevant indicators and statistics for those policy and status of data availability.

– statistical capacity development for related agencies. 5

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Natural Resources and Environment Sector

National Resources and Environment

National Resources

Mineral resources

Soil and land resources

Marine and coastal resources

Water resources

Forest resources

Biological resources

Environmental quality and pollution

Soil quality

Air quality

water quality

Noise pollution

Waste

Hazardous waste

Community environment

Environmental development organization

Natural disasters and Mitigation

Natural disaster

Mitigation

Meteorology and Climate Change

Weather

Climate change

Ministry of National Resources and Environment

Some data existing related to Land accounts

Statistics Data source Responsible agency

• Land allocation for

agriculture Administrative record Agricultural reform

office

• Agriculture Census Census 2013 NSO

• Forest area Satellite image Forest department

• Land use Administrative record Land development

department

• rehabilitated and

prevented erosion

agricultural area

Administrative record

Land Development

Department

NSO-GIS : Agriculture Census

Metadata

; www.thaisdi.gistda.or.th

Thailand’s NSDI Devolopment and Implementation Framework

1. There are many laws relate to natural resources and the environment management with different legal definitions. Some data have different definitions and statistical standards.

2. Most data were used only in their own department, not be opened to public.

3. Most natural resources and environmental statistics were produced by specialized approaches.NSO not involve in producing those statistics.

4. Some statistics need to be compiled from area agencies but lack of staff and budget for collecting data. It causes not meet user need in term of timeliness and not produced periodically.

Challenges