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Balancing Rights and Roles of Local Community: The Way Forward for Sustainable Management of Forest Resources

Date
01 Jan 2016
Authors
Luong Quang Hung; Nguyen Quang Tan
Publisher
RECOFTC
Serial No.
0000084
Balancing Rights and Roles of Local Community: The Way Forward for Sustainable Management of Forest Resources

Local communities and state forest actors, such as Protection Forest Management Boards (PFMBs), State Forest Companies (SFCs), play equally important roles in forest resource management. Yet local communities have limited legal rights. This is one reason that leads to a lack of forest ownership for local communities. In order to support local communities to effectively engage in sustainable forest management and livelihood development, a fuller set of rights should be legally given to them.