A study of the status and role of community organizations in common-pool resource management in terms of public lands
| dc.contributor.advisor | Udom Tumkosit | th |
| dc.contributor.author | Kittikan Saengngam | th |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-23T04:01:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-23T04:01:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | th |
| dc.date.issuedBE | 2563 | th |
| dc.description | Thesis (D.P.A.)--National Institute of Development Administration, 2020 | th |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is aimed at studying the status and roles of community organizations to manage common-pool resources or public lands. It is a qualitative research based on data collection, which comprises relevant documentary research along with case studies, field research, in-depth interviews and observations. This study is divided into two parts. Part 1 involves a study of the overall concept of common-pool resource management in terms of public lands in Thailand based on documentary research, which includes documents, policies, laws and relevant research. Part 2 involves field research using the case studies of eight areas, comprised of two groups – Group 1 consists of six communities that efficiently manage public lands through community organizations, namely 1) Nam Phang, Nan Province, 2) Ariyothai Samakkhi, Uthai Thani Province, 3) Ban Lao Nuea, Phrae Province, 4) Ban Don Mu, Ubon Ratchathani Province, 5) Chamaep Phatthana, Ayutthaya Province, and 6) Chao Pho Sombun Shrine 54, Bangkok. These communities were used for the study and analysis of the role that community organizations play in common-pool resource management on public lands, as well as the factors that enable communities and community organizations to be strong and capable of managing public lands. Group 2 - Communities that have disputes over public lands. The dispute partners include “communities that are close to public lands” and “the public or private sector, where the State grants the right to use public lands”. This group is used to analyze loopholes in public land management in two areas: Wa Chong Kho, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, and Huai Mek public lands, Khon Kaen Province. The results of the study reveal that most community organizations that play a role in managing common-pool resources are villagers’ organizations set up by community leaders. Later, they are developed as official organizations and upgraded to community forest committees, land committees or are developed from saving groups to cooperatives. In one community, there may be more than one community organization to manage the common-pool resources of its public lands. Functions are assigned in accordance with each group’s specific ability, but they work together. Based on the case studies, it is evident that each community organization has the same role in managing common-pool resources: 1) drafting regulations to control the use of resources, 2) carrying out resource prevention and maintenance activities, such as forest fire prevention patrols, forest fire buffers and afforestation to enhance fertility, 3) formulating resource management plans and submitting them to the public and private agencies concerned to tender requests for support and the budget, 4) developing community knowledge so that members can efficiently manage resources, and 5) building a network for managing common-pool resources in collaboration with other community organizations in other areas. The factors that strengthen community organizations’ ability to efficiently manage common-pool resources or public lands are comprised of, first - leadership of community organizations. Most leaders or group leaders are respected in the community, as they are official leaders, e.g., village heads, village committee and situational leaders as pioneers or core leaders for solving public land issues in communities, such as forest conservation groups or farmland allocation demanding groups. Key qualifications of leaders include having a sense of joint ownership, to create willing cooperation in preserving community common-pool resources. The second factor involves clear rules concerning the use of common-pool resources. Regulations and penalties are clearly defined. Norms are of great importance for controlling the use of resources, e.g. issuing rules prohibiting the utilizing of resources in community graveyards, which have been abided by from generation to generation. This is more effective than imposing penalties and collecting fines. The third factor involves mechanisms for reducing the factors that promote encroachment and protections against the over-use of resources beyond the defined rules. For example, cooperative groups generate income for community people. If they have sufficient incomes they can reduce their use of resources, regardless of future damage. As a result, those resources are sustainable. As for recommendations regarding the review of laws relating to public land management, in order to enable communities to take part in practically managing public lands, the researcher suggests the following: 1) laws, especially pertaining to community rights, should be issued by pushing for a Community Rights Act, 2) all laws pertaining to forests and national parks should be revised, to be consistent with the constitution, 3) laws on public lands should be amended so that they do not contradict each other, and 4) the possibility of adding measures or sections in the Land Code on rights and ownership on community lands should be studied so that land rights documents can be issued in the form of community rights documents or title deeds. | th |
| dc.format.extent | 233 leaves | th |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | th |
| dc.identifier.other | b212197 | th |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6836 | th |
| dc.language.iso | eng | th |
| dc.publisher | National Institute of Development Administration | th |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | th |
| dc.subject.other | Public lands -- Management | th |
| dc.title | A study of the status and role of community organizations in common-pool resource management in terms of public lands | th |
| dc.type | text::thesis::doctoral thesis | th |
| mods.genre | Dissertation | th |
| mods.physicalLocation | National Institute of Development Administration. Library and Information Center | th |
| thesis.degree.department | Graduate School of Public Administration | th |
| thesis.degree.grantor | National Institute of Development Administration | th |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | th |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | th |