Pollution Control and Information Disclosure in Thailand: A Gradual Opening

On a global scale transparency is seen increasingly as an important tool of governance. Within environmental policy at the nation state level, transparency is also seen as a way to achieve positive outcomes in situations where traditional regulatory approaches have been less successful. As a first step towards a wider project comparing environmental information disclosure policies and programs across a number of countries, this paper briefly discusses some initial data collection for the country of Thailand. The purpose is to understand governmental transparency in the environmental arena within the larger context of pollution control activity. This paper ends with some conclusions about the role of transparency in the future of Thai environmental policy.