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207 มนั ส สุวรรณ วารสารราชบัณฑิตยสถาน ปีที่ ๓๗ ฉบับที่ ๔ ต.ค.-ธ.ค. ๒๕๕๕ Abstract The Severe Flood in 2011 : A Geographer’s Point of View Manat Suwan Associate Fellow of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, The Royal Institute, Thailand The severe flood in 2011 has been ranked as themost destructive natural disaster ever for Thailand in the past 50 years. The damages and losses were not only found in the agricultural sector, but also in the industrial and household ones. Many people thought that the most important cause of the phenomenon was the cyclone ‘Nock-ten’. Actually, still a number of factors, as analyzed, were believed to be the causal factors of the flood as well. This article was an analysis in a geographer’s point of view. The contexts of the 2011 flood including the severity, conflicts among groups of people, and damages and losses were presented in the first part. It was, then, followed by the analysis of causal factors to mitigate the effects. Keywords: severe flood in 2011, causal factors, effects, mitigation