| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 森林系所 === 99 === In Taiwan, national forest occupies the majority of forest cover. Because
it’s vast in territory and distributes mostly in remote villages, it seems a
common pool resources (CPRs) and it is not quite easy to achieve the goals of
management and natural ecological conservation. For the sake of forestry
conservation and the community development, Taiwan Forest Bureau (TFB)
initiated a community forest program (CFP) since 2002, so as to encourage
the community residents to participate in the management of natural resources.
So far, a minority of community residents have started to participate in
national forest patrol management. The main objective of this paper is to find
the factors that affect residents to participate in the forest patrol. Then, discuss
empirical results with patrol-related theories. The research methods were
through reviewed literature, interviewed residents from a community which
has engaged in national forest patrol, surveyed opinions of experts, and drawn
up the questionnaire of quantitative survey. We has surveyed the members of
communities from eight national forest districts of TFB which included two kinds community associations: the good performance of patrol that TFB
recommend and the high-risk area of forest damages. We concluded five
dimensions in this research: the residents, community organization, protective
resources, local context, and external factors. Therefore, we proposed five
dimensions and 21 indicators totally. Empirically, there are ten factors affect
community residents to participate in national forest patrol, namely: sense of
place, resident’s relationships, characteristic of resident, altruistic, and
association operations, interest of resources, management responsibilities,
tourism development, professional assistance, and information stimulus.
Finally, we discussed the results with sociology theories and found “social
exchange” and “collective action theory” are suitable theories to explain the
patrol behavior of community residents.
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