Sopon Naruchaikusol, Master of Science in Resource Management (interdisciplinary programme), has 9 years of professional experiences in disaster risk management and vulnerability assessment, climate change adaptation and regional model, community based natural resources management, resources and environmental economics, biodiversity conservation, community participation, community action research, environmental education, and wetlands management in the lower Mekong basin.

His areas of specialisation are community based natural resources management (CBNRM), economic tools for conservation, and economic valuation of natural resource and environment. He also has extensive experience on the field research advisor and project management.

Before joining SEI, he worked as outreach officer for Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Programme (MWBP) in Songkhram demonstration site, Thailand.

Publications

• Innovation and diffusion of sustainable agricultural water resource management in a changing climate: A case study in Northeast Thailand (Project report - 2010)

• From Knowledge To Action: Learning To Go The Last Mile (Report - 2009)

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Tsunami Early Warning Systems in Thailand: a case study on Krabi Province (Project report - 2009)

• Comparative Destination Vulnerability Assessment for Khao Lak, Patong Beach and Phi Phi Don (Project report - 2009)

• Destination Vulnerability Assessment for Khao Lak, Thailand (Project report - 2009)

• Vulnerability assessment of the tsunami-affected areas of Thailand: a case study of the Phi Phi Islands, Krabi Province (Project report - 2009)

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Projects

• What Policy and Adaptive Capacity is Needed for Changing Land Use and Flood Management in Thailand? (FORIN project)

  
  

• The Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia

  
  

• Agricultural transformations in the Greater Mekong Region

  
  

• Downscaling the CRED Model: Climate Impacts and Economic Development at the Sub-Regional Level

  
  

• Sustainable Mekong Research Network (Sumernet, Phase II)

  
  

• A Review and Study of Social Carrying Capacity Assessment in Khao Lak, Phang Nga Province and Phi Phi Island, Krabi Province, Thailand

  
  

• Sustainable Recovery and Resilience Building in the Tsunami Affected Region