Communities on the Areas of The Crown Property Bureau

Abstract

The operation of community development of The Crown Property Bureau has applied the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy, adhered to the good governance as way of administration, and been responsible to society for the best advantage to the community.  Since the year 2003, communities in Bangkok have been developed and driven explicitly in many dimensions namely economics, social, environment, and culture so substantially that some communities were praised and granted awards from various private and public sectors including were widely acclaimed by press and televisions.  All 6 developing communities of case study located on the Crown Property Bureau were the communities with systematically managed.  However, only 2 communities were successfully managed its community were accepted and appraised as strong communities.  The methodology applied to these 6 communities derived by application of lesson learned from research study of strong community enabling the sustainability of Bangkok Metropolitan City.

The research methodology was processed by workshop method with community cooperation and applied semi-structure interview for collecting data.  The research results showed that the community development on the areas of the Crown Property Bureau contained three major parts: good administration leaders with good governance and integrating cooperation of community members; exchanging knowledge among communities; and study trip to other communities in order to apply it to the context of their own ones including built up community network for cooperation and sustainable development to their communities.  Significantly, it was found out that the communities that were accepted by international organization were the strong community that applied the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy as mean of development to their communities.