Development of the Model for Community Forest Management According to the Act of Parliament on Community Forest : a case on Ban Rom Fa Lung, Wieng Kaen, Chiang Rai

Abstract

Research “Development of the Model for Community Forest Management According to   the Act of Parliament on Community Forest : a case on Ban Rom Fa Lung,  Wieng Kaen , Chiang Rai ” aims 1) to develop the model for set up community forest according to the Act of Parliament on Community Forest B.E.2562 and 2) to study the method of community forest management at Ban Rom Fa Lung, Wieng Kaen ,Chiang Rai . Mixed methods research was used. Questionnaires were collected from the 35 representative samples which were household leaders of forest community as quantitative data, while 7 of community forest committees were interviewed for qualitative process.

             The results revealed that the Act of Parliament on Community Forest starting from the community which need for common pool resource management of community forest by their own method in order to achieve the community's right to use the resources in the area sustainably and deprive non-members to use. The establishment of a community forest under the Act of Parliament on Community Forest begins with collecting community forest members and electing a community forest committee in order to prepare petition, regulations and community forest management plan supporting from local government, while consideration approved by provincial government and national level government. Ban Rom Fah Luang Community Forest Management is based on the concept of shared resource management, with management methods according to the beliefs of the Hmong that have been inherited from their ancestors as follows: 1) determining user boundaries and the boundaries of the area by community forestry committees , 2) believing and preserving community forest members set regulation by community forest members set, 3) participating in decision in community forest management, 4) taking the responsibility as supervisor, 5) imposing penalties from light to heavy, 6) managing conflicts by means of community, 7) accepting from government agencies, and 8) linking with contiguous community forest network partners in the area.