TY  - JOUR
T1  - Formulation of Community Forest Act for Thailand
AU - Saenpakdee, Apirak AU - Thiengkamol, Nongnapas 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SP  - 71
EP  - 76
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2012.71.76
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2012.71.76
KW  - Formulation
KW  -Community Forest Act
KW  -TAO
KW  -self-evaluation
KW  -parliment
KW  -Thailand
AB  - The constitution of Thailand B.E. 2550 has enacted on the 
  people participation for environment and the natural resource conservation on 
  the different sections such as in Section 67 specified that the right of people 
  to take participation in conservation, utilization, protect and promote the 
  quality of environment and natural resources by living without causing a harmful 
  effect and with concerning security and quality of life. If there is any activity 
  that might affected to the quality of environment and the natural resources 
  of the community forest such as clearing forest for farming or feeding cow in 
  the community forest, the community people should have a right to protect. In 
  case of the huge project such as a dam construction, the general people or the 
  Non-government Organization (NGO) should have the right to participate in the 
  public hearing and to give the opinions before the project implementation occurrence. 
  The objective of this study was to formulate the Community Forest Act for Thailand 
  based on the people participation. The mixed method of qualitative and quantitative 
  approaches was done. The in-depth interview with structural form was implemented 
  for data collection from the stakeholders which included the community environmental 
  leaders of Bann Kaeng- Ka-Arm, the Tambon Administration Organization (TAO) 
  members of Pa-Sa-Weoy, Ampoe Somdej, Kalasin province and the NGO. The Participatory 
  Appreciate-Influence-Control technique (PAIC) was used in the brain storming 
  session of community peoples to formulate the Community Forest Act for Thailand. 
  Considering to the in-dept interview of the stakeholders which included the 
  community environmental leaders, the TAO members and the NGO, it was found that 
  most of them agreed that there is a serious conflict problem between the community 
  people and the governmental sector due to the Act of Community Forest is not 
  issued by parliament until now. Most of them agree that they would like to have 
  the following contents in the formulate act of community forest. Community people 
  should have the right to participate and manage for Community Forest Conservation 
  if they are living before the announcement of the Act of National Park in B.E. 
  2504. Community people should have the authority to collect mushroom, herb, 
  firewood and wood for household use and public use but they can not sell timber 
  of community forest. The people outside the community have no right and authority 
  like as community people who look after community forest before the announcement 
  of forest conservation area . Community people should have duty to protect the 
  biodiversity of community forest and etc. The results illustrated that before 
  and after the PAIC process implemented, the knowledge achievement and the environmental 
  participation were determined. It was found that there were high statistically 
  significant difference between pre- and post-test in p<0.01 and p<0.01 
  in two aspects of knowledge achievement, environmental participation for community 
  forest conservation. The mean scores between self- and friend-evaluation between 
  friend- and facilitator-evaluation and between self- and facilitator-evaluation 
  showed statistical difference (p<0.05, p<0.05 and p<0.01). During the 
  PAIC was implementing, the 4 focus groups discussion were done. The overall 
  results showed that there were at least 4 purposed projects such as knowledge 
  given to people for Community Forest Conservation, Afforestation Conservation 
  of Endangerus species of plants and animal and promotion people participation 
  for Community Forest Conservation which would be implemented according to the 
  action plans on Community Forest Conservation. These were implemented at the 
  community. The pilot project was selected three from four proposed projects. 
  These were knowledge given to people for Community Forest Conservation, Afforestation 
  and promotion people participation for Community Forest Conservation. The PAIC 
  had been urgently used to prevent the loss of biodiversity of community forest 
  during they were waiting for the issuing of Community Forest Act. The recommendation 
  from the finding is that the community people in each community forest all over 
  the country should make a consensus in order to propose to the government and 
  the parliament members for making a decision of issuing the Act of Community 
  Forest as soon as possible. Finally, researchers can conserve the community 
  forest with the real people participation.
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