Development of Strategies for Community Forest Management of The People in Tak Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the states, problems, and factors related to community forest management, and 2) to develop strategies for community forest management. Quantitative data were collected from a sample of 895 people, sampling size was determined using Krejcie and Morgan's table, and stratified sampling. The questionnaire had a reliability of 0.82 and 0.86. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Qualitative data were collected by using interviewing, and holding workshops and connoisseurship. The data then were analyzed using content analysis. The research finding revealed that community forest protection was the most important for community forest management whereas the most important problem was maintaining community forests. Factors related to community forest management contributing to community forest management were management factor, social and cultural factor, and politics and law factor. The developed strategies consisted of one vision, two missions, two goals, two strategic issues, and 7 strategies.