Building resilience to floods and other disasters in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Chapter 3 examines the resilience of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) to floods, which occur during the rainy season. It is critical to address this risk to ensure sustained and cost-effective urban green growth while adapting to the impacts of climate change, because precipitation and flooding affecting the region will likely increase in the future. This chapter analyses four critical elements for enhancing urban resilience to floods: 1) flood-resilient urban infrastructure in the BMR 2) flood-resilient land use in the BMR 3) the BMR’s economic resilience to floods 4) the BMR’s social resilience to floods. This chapter benefited from discussions at the Knowledge-Sharing Workshop on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia, held in Bangkok on 6-7 August 2014, which was supported by the OECD Knowledge Sharing Alliance.