Pongsun Bunditsakulchai

• Doctor of Philosophy (Information Sciences)
• Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University

Climate change poses a significant threat to global agricultural sectors and its supply chains, with far-reaching implications for economic stability and growth, particularly in developing countries heavily reliant on agriculture. This study we employ a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) framework to analyze the linkages between the agricultural sector...

The impact of crude oil price fluctuations on the real effective exchange rate (REER) has been widely debated, but specific evidence, particularly for developing countries in Southeast Asia, is scarce and inconclusive. This issue, especially concerning both short- and long-term relationships, remains inadequately addressed, affecting these countrie...

This study analyzes consumer preferences for EVs using the discrete choice experiment and explores the attitudes toward possible policies on EV stimulation. The 362 participants with a driving license and living in Bangkok participated in the questionnaire survey. The information on the questionnaire includes their characteristics, car usage behavi...

Car sharing services are effective at decreasing the number of privately owned cars in a region while satisfying citizens’ convenience. In this paper, we aim to develop a method for estimating the environmental impact change due to the diffusion of car sharing in the future. For this purpose, we assume two scenarios for comparison, i.e., business-a...

Without understanding the characteristics of disadvantaged individuals who are at risk of malnutrition, it is impossible for policymakers to develop and implement effective policies to combat malnourishment among individuals facing income insecurity. With an accurate picture of who is at the greatest risk, policymakers will be able to target the mo...

Understanding the impacts of tsunamis, especially in terms of damage and losses, is important for disaster mitigation and management. This study aims to estimate the building damage and economic loss (direct and indirect) changes for two periods before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (IOT) on Patong Beach in Phuket Province, Thailand. We be...

The crisis ignited by COVID-19 has transformed the volume and composition of waste generation and requires a dynamic response from policy makers. This study selected Bangkok as a case study to semi-quantitatively examine the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on consumer-generated food and plastic waste by examining changes in lifestyles and consumpti...

Urban food waste issues in developing economies have recently attracted the attention of policymakers, practitioners, and academics in the course of implementing the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. In our case study city of Bangkok, Thailand, household food waste generation doubled from 2003 to 2018, with a similar increase in per capita amounts. Usi...

Ensuring sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns is an important task for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 12 by 2030. To facilitate international and domestic collaboration toward regional SCP, we developed a collaborative workshop method to generate and structure ideas about consumption and production (CP) patterns and employe...

In the course of implementing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, policymakers, practitioners and academics have increasingly acknowledged the urgency of addressing the food waste (FW) issue in urban areas of developing economies. This paper selected Bangkok as a case study to evaluate options for preventing and reducing...

โครงการ “การพัฒนาฐานข้อมูลและแบบจําลอง Water-Food-Energy Nexus เพื่อใช้ประเมินการ วางแผนพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน” ถูกพัฒนาขึ้นภายใต้แนวความคิดที่ว่าการพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจและสังคมอย่างยั่งยืน จําเป็นต้องพิจารณาประเด็นด้านความมั่นคงของการใช้ทรัพยากรควบคู่กันไป เพราะต้นทุนของการแก้ไขสูง กว่าต้นทุนของการวางแผนตั้งแต่ต้นเสมอ ในบางครั้งการพัฒนาอาจทําให้เกิดความไม่มั่...

This examination is to consider the effect of the biofuel business incorporates ethanol and biodiesel, to Thailand's Economy by utilizing Input-Output examiner. Thailand's Alternate Energy Development Plan (AEDP) has been advancing the biofuel business persistently in the previous ten years by sponsoring biofuel items and propelled command strategy...

The energy industry is considered one of the important sectors for national economic development—especially the electricity generation industry then Thailand has developed a power development plan as the nation roadmap to ensure power security and reliability of the electricity system. In this study, we focus on the electricity generation industry...

Why WEF NEXUS? Rapid urbanization in our world with regional socioeconomic development is vulnerable under resource scarcity. Water, energy and food/land are essential to meet these demands. It is certain that all resources are also intensifying vulnerabilities to future demands. The "Water-Energy-Food NEXUS" approach aims to link socioeconomic dev...

Why WEF NEXUS? Rapid urbanization in our world with regional socioeconomic development is vulnerable under resource scarcity. Water, energy and food/land are essential to meet these demands. It is certain that all resources are also intensifying vulnerabilities to future demands. The "Water-Energy-Food NEXUS" approach aims to link socioeconomic dev...

This paper uses the survey data on household electricity demand from five districts of Vientiane, Lao PDR, for the demand projection up to 2030 using the end-use model. The scenario analysis is used to verify the potential of an energy-saving program by alternating selected appliances with more energy-efficient ones following the labelling standard...