A Waste Management Model for Phu Phra Bat Historical Park Area, Udon Thani Province.

Abstract

The current study aimed 1) to investigate factors affecting waste management in Phu Phra Bat Historical Park area, Undon Thani Province, 2) to develop a waste management model for Phu Phra Bat Historical Park area, Undon Thani Province, and 3) to investigate the effectiveness of the model applied to the area. The study was separated into 3 phrases as follow. Phase 1 Investigate factors affecting waste management in Phu Phra Bat Historical Park area, Undon Thani Province. The structure of the model for waste management was designed to have four casual factors including knowledge related to waste, attitude toward waste problems, communication, and participation. The samples were 400 tourists in Udon Thani Province. A questionnaire designed in linear structural model was used in data collection. The data were analyzed by path analysis method. The result of the study showed that the causal relationship model was related to the evidence. Four casual factors directly affected waste management in Phu Phra Bat Historical Park area, Udon Thani Province including participation ( ß = .42 ), knowledge related to waste ( ß =.21 ), communication ( ß = .13 ), and attitude toward waste problems ( ß = .11 ), respectively.
Phase 2 aimed to develop a waste management model for Phu Phra Bat Historical Park area, Udon Thani Province using the result of the study in the previous stage. A workshop was held for 20 participants to analyze and criticize the result of the study in order to develop the model. It was found that activities could be applied to the waste management model 1) 3 activities related to participation including 5 S activities and Phu Phra Bat Historical Park knowledge management; 2) 8 activities related to knowledge related to waste including waste management knowledge, compost making, waste and drink exchange, reducing the uses of plastic and foam, biochemical distilled liquid making, 3Rs for waste categorization, and managing areas for separating waste; 3) 4 activities related to communication including public relation, rewarding of role model shops in the area, compliment for good practice, and volunteer club for Phu Phra Bat Historical Park; and 4) 3 activities related to attitude toward waste problems including campaign for environment care, national park care, and waste collecting volunteers. Phase 3 aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the developed model on waste management in the area. The participants were 20 tourists visiting Phu Phra Bat Historical Park, Udon Thani province. Wilcoxson Signed Rank test. was used to analyze the comparison between waste management before and after the use of the model. The result of the study indicated that the waste management model for Phu Phra Bat Historical Park area, Udon Thani Province improve waste water management in the area with the statistical significance at .05 Keywords : Model, A Waste Management.