HERBAL MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN WATERSHED AND COASTAL ZONE OF PATTANI

Abstract

        The purpose of this research was to study the development of herbal management pattern for sustainability in watershed and coastal zone of Pattani by applying EDFR technique (Ethnographic Delphi Future Research). The samples in this study consisted of 24 experts divided into 2 groups. The first were academicians and government officers concerned in policy and operation of herbal management pattern for sustainability in watershed and coastal zone of Pattani while another group were the experts who were based on domicile, career, knowledge, and stake concerning in herbal management for sustainability in watershed and coastal zone of Pattani. Interview and questionnaire were used as research tools in this study in order to find the most likely tendency and conceptual congruence between expert groups for summarizing and visualizing in the future. The model was examined by connoisseurship with 12 experts of stakeholders. The tendency is very corresponding and there is a conceptual consensus.

          The results showed that the proper model should support the establishment of intergovernmental organization between government and public to be countable for cooperative sustainability management by applying concept and process of equilibrium of environmental, social, and economic factors on basis of conservation, utilization, promotion of propagation and encouraging career for the community with the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy.