The Crisis Management Leadership and Disaster Mitigation Water Management Strategy For the Modern Human Security : A Case Study of The Provinces in The Flood-Plane Areas of Central Thailand

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to study the crisis management leadership of the leading government personnels, volunteers and committed community leaders in the implementation of water management strategy, in the attempt at  handling and reducing disastrous flood damages, especially in the provinces of Lopburi, Phra Nakorn Sri Ayuthaya, and Nakorn Nayok, certainly with the  aspirating aim to achieve  the administrative success in modern human security in times of seasonal flood crises. Methodologically speaking, the study employs both the qualitative and quantitative researches In conclusion, with respect to the strategic water management in flood crises and in the attempts to control the disaster mitigation amidst the panicking 'life and death' village scenarios, the best strategy for the strategic water management leadership, while facing the panicking and destabilize flood traumas, is to handle the unruly situations with wisdom, intelligence and physical know-how, in accordance with the global tactics and technical maximization. In addition, psychological preparations on the part of the officials, the volunteers and the villagers alike, have to be pro-actively undertaken in order to cultivate the stakeholders to have the proper mindset and the physical readiness for supreme encounter in dangerous flood catastrophes, Finally, it is compulsory for them to concern more on the matter of human security and social safety net, together with cultivating strong engagement on civic participation and new public management.