Yilei Hou
Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Jing Wu
Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Longbo Ma
Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
Yali Wen
Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
ABSTRACT
After Chinas collective forest right system reform, cooperation organizations have played an important role in the development of community forestry. In order to analyze the demands and attitudes of stakeholders of community forests, a participatory approach which included brainstorming, material collection, PRA tools, semi-structured interviews and questionnaire surveys, was used in a forest management survey involving four village cases. According to the application of the participatory approach it can be seen that the different types of stakeholders had different demands and attitudes toward community forest management. Farmers were more focused on economic benefit while forestry bureaus were more concerned about attaining the maximum level of forestry farmers ecological, economic and social efficiency. Cooperative members had more positive attitudes than non-cooperative members. According to all stakeholders, the harvest quota control system is the most unreasonable policy. In addition, based on the results of the SWOT strategy analysis matrix for forest management policies and systems at the level of forestry farmers, four strategy selections are proposed.
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Yilei Hou, Jing Wu, Longbo Ma and Yali Wen, 2013. Application of Participatory Approach in Community Forest Resource Management Based
on a Case Study Performed in Fujian Province, China. Information Technology Journal, 12: 5906-5910.
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.5906.5910
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2013.5906.5910
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.5906.5910
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2013.5906.5910
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