Community Rights and Natural Resources Management in Locality, Concepts and Social Reality: A Case Study Eastern Seaboard Area

Abstract

สิทธิชุมชนThis research aims to study the dynamics of concept of community rights in natural resource management, structural conditions affecting success, problems, obstacles, and cases study on limitations of coastal resource management in communities. The research found that the dynamics of concept of community rights can be divided into 4 periods; community rights before the establishment of the national state, community rights in the era of the national state, community rights in the development era and community rights that are guaranteed by the provisions of the Constitution. In the structural condition aspect, the research has found that the important conditions that affect success are the ability to design a social institution of the community, the ability to create rules and enforce rules with community users’ ability to build, tighten and expand networks. Problems, obstacles and limitations which prevent successful coastal resource management consists of lack of compliance with the rules by external users, community rules and community knowledge limit the power of resource management in which the state plays a greater role than the community, differences in the state resource management paradigm, the lack of a secondary law that guarantees the use of community rights, the efficiency of the surveillance process, including the strength and sustainability of social institutions established by the community