Community Environment Planning for Environment Quality Management in Eco-Industrial Development Zone in Tub Ma Sub-district Municipality, Mueang District, Rayong

Abstract

Country development planning results in economic expansion and growth. Therefore, it requires sustainable environmental use, in order to be environmentally friendly with the production and consumption. Tub Ma Sub-district municipal community area has been influenced from being an industrial area. This yields both advantages and disadvantages to the community, namely better economic system and environmental and natural resource exploitation. The researchers have created an environmental plan for Tub Ma Sub-district municipal community in Rayong according to the area conditions and problems in order to achieve a plan which can be a tool for environmentally quality management toward the community development and ecological industrial zone development for the sustainable environment. Qualitative methodology was employed with participatory action research (PAR). Data collection tools were document, brainstorming, in-depth interview, and content analysis. The results reveal that the ecological industrial zone development plan for Tub Ma Sub-district municipal community area consists of project/activity plans which the municipality and the community committee are responsible to process the planned projects in order to solve the community problems that have impacted industrial plants around the ecological industrial zone and promote the development of the zone to be a sustainable environmental zone.