Download or read book Evaluating Community Forestry in Huai Lu Luang, Thailand written by Kimberly Beth Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research incorporated Elinor Ostrom's (2002) framework of resource and resource user attributes for successful self-governance of common pool resource management, as a means of evaluating the feasibility of community-based management of Huai Lu Luang's community forest. Methods included participant observations, survey interviews, and key informant interviews from September to October 2010. The 32 survey interviews were selected through non-probability sampling to include an equal number of male and female interviewees in three age categories of 18-34, 35-50, and 50+, with two additional interviewees to represent the Akha and Yellow Lahu minorities in the village. Research results indicate that Huai Lu Luang complies strongly to very strongly with 73% of Ostrom's attributes and moderately with 27%. Resource attributes indicate that Huai Lu Luang's community forest has the capacity for feasible improvement, the predictable flow of resource units, and a manageable spatial extent. Huai Lu Luang appropriators exhibit governance capabilities, a high dependency on community forest resources, and a significant sense of village trust and unity. The community forest design is also appropriate to the local conditions time, space, ecology, and technology. This research indicates that Huai Lu Luang village is capable of successfully self-governing their community forest on a sustainable basis, suggesting that Huai Lu Luang is a strong candidate for a chanod chumchom.