Leadership development for sustainable urban environmental management: Cases in Thailand

Abstract

This chapter explores future challenges to improve the design and implementation of the Thailand Unit by examining two cases of the unit conducted in 2009 and 2011. The unit covers two important issues of urban environmental management: Solid waste management and urban water use and management. Development, implementation, results and review processes of the unit are shown by comparing both cases. To examine educational effects of the unit in terms of its academic contents, group work results are shown. To improve the unit design and implementation, questionnaire survey results for the involved faculty members are shown, where the strengths and weakness are clearly indicated. To review the effects of the unit participation on leadership development in individual students, their feedback comments are shown and serve as proof of the unit's achievements.