The Dawei Road Link, a planned 138-kilometer highway linking Bangkok to a 260-square-kilometer SEZ in Myanmar, bisects regional ecological corridors. This map shows the design team’s intervention sites used to convey landscape impacts, predict wildlife crossings, and test design strategies, 2016.
Bio-engineering technologies, principally for erosion control of tropical mountainous roads, are scoped for their additional potential to create micro-habitat, minimize degraded forest edges, and involve local communities in landscape maintenance, 2016.
The Design Manual compiles detailed profiles of 20 threatened or endemic species typical of the project area, including critical behavioral aspects and dimensions necessary for infrastructure and mitigation design along the length of the Dawei Road Link, 2016.
Three prototypical sites are designed, with three scenarios each, to contrast the cost-centric engineering choices with low-impact landscape strategies. The recommended scenario shows the importance of design upstream in the planning process to minimize expensive late-stage mitigation, maintenance and monitoring, 2016.
Test sites for design experimentation combined low-resolution global data with additional inputs including designed wildlife mitigation features, automated engineering cut and fill calculations, and land cover enhancement, 2016.
3D-printed design scenario models, 2016.
3D-printed landscape models, used in developer and government stakeholder meetings, contrast three design scenarios for a single site, including: 1) Developer’s likely alignment and construction; 2) Upgrade of access road; and 3) Bioengineering and wildlife mitigation. Printed with plant-derived plastics, 2016.
3D-printed design scenario models, 2016.
Oil palm plantations on unsuitable slopes in southern Myanmar. By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
HKU students observing the Myanmar Stark Prestige Plantation (MSPP) east of Myeik city, Tanintharyi, Myanmar. By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
MSPP oil palm plantation in Tanintharyi District, 2016.
Oil palm and rubber plantations in Myeik District. By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
HKU students at WWF office in Yangon. By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By FONG Hei Yi, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By LI Hiu Lam, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By LIN Zhiqi, 2016.
By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
By AU YOUNG Chung Yan, 2016.
By AU YOUNG Chung Yan, 2016.
By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
By LUI Ka Yi, 2016.
By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By LUI Ka Yi, 2016.
By CHAN Yeuk Nam, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By AU YOUNG Chung Yan, 2016.
By Dorothy Tang, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By YUEN Ho Shun, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
By LAM Wing Yan, 2016.
From Ethnic to Wildlife Conflict: Ecological corridors and refugee repatriation on the upper Tanintharyi River. By CHU Lok Yan Minnie, 2016.
From Ethnic to Wildlife Conflict: Ecological corridors and refugee repatriation on the upper Tanintharyi River. By CHU Lok Yan Minnie, 2016.
Max-capacity Landscapes: Village intensification, integration, and capacity-building for returning refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border. By HO Pik Lam Theodora, 2016.
Max-capacity Landscapes: Village intensification, integration, and capacity-building for returning refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border. By HO Pik Lam Theodora, 2016.
Max-capacity Landscapes: Village intensification, integration, and capacity-building for returning refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border. By HO Pik Lam Theodora, 2016.
Programming the Forest: Non-zoned approaches to customary rights in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve. By KHOO Ting Fung Natalie, 2016.
Programming the Forest: Non-zoned approaches to customary rights in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve. By KHOO Ting Fung Natalie, 2016.
Programming the Forest: Non-zoned approaches to customary rights in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve. By KHOO Ting Fung Natalie, 2016.
Amplified Industrial Terrain: Micro-scale and anticipatory approaches to incremental planning of Dawei SEZ. By NG Lai Ching Daisy, 2016.
Amplified Industrial Terrain: Micro-scale and anticipatory approaches to incremental planning of Dawei SEZ. By NG Lai Ching Daisy, 2016.
Amplified Industrial Terrain: Micro-scale and anticipatory approaches to incremental planning of Dawei SEZ. By NG Lai Ching Daisy, 2016.
Extraction Untamed: Alternative environmental management strategies for Thai investment in Heinda tin mine. By TSOI King Yan Ingrid, 2016.
Extraction Untamed: Alternative environmental management strategies for Thai investment in Heinda tin mine. By TSOI King Yan Ingrid, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
SEZ Occupied: Landscapes, compensation, and anticipating development through Village Priority Action Areas. By WANG Junwen David, 2016.
Engineered Land Rights: Compensation, displacement and alternative impact scopes for the Dawei Road Link. By ZHANG Tongtong Sherly, 2016.
Engineered Land Rights: Compensation, displacement and alternative impact scopes for the Dawei Road Link. By ZHANG Tongtong Sherly, 2016.
Case study site visit to petrochemical estate, Map Ta Phut, Thailand. By Ashley Scott Kelly, 2016.
Students meeting with Michaunglaung village to discuss TNRP Corporate Social Responsibility program. By Maxime Decaudin, 2016.
Three reports highlight 1) ecosystem services and environmental regulation, 2) wildlife crossings modelling, and 3) design guidelines for sustainable road construction with wildlife mitigation. A collaboration with WWF, these were generated rapidly over 10 months due to imminent threats of construction, 2016.
Advocating design as integral to upstream planning, especially without public EIAs and scarce environmental data, we developed tools, including semi-automated design scenarios and optimization algorithms for wildlife prediction, to fill in planning knowledge and data gaps, 2016.
Wildlife movement corridors were predicted based on likely reactions to forest cover, slope, ridges, streams, roads, and settlement. Nine critical species were tested using these inputs by an interdisciplinary team of experts from WWF, Smithsonian, FFI, WCS, and HKU, 2016.
Multi-species corridor models, a current challenge in landscape ecology, were optimized by the design team based on eight principles, including: maximizing species movement rates, minimum number of crossing per species, distance between crossings, cold spot reduction, and corridor continuity, 2016.
Twelve wildlife crossing segments (not points), flexible enough to take into account local cost engineering and mitigation measures outlined in the accompanying Design Manual, were identified by the design team, 2016.
