PEOPLE’S PREFERENCE, PARTICIPATION AND PERCEPTION TOWARDS COMMUNITY FORESTRY WOODLOT (CFW): A CASE OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROJECT IN DHAKA FOREST DIVISION, BANGLADESH

M. E.  Kabir; R.  Mowla; M. N.  Islam

doi:10.53808/KUS.2003.5.1.0308-L

Authors

M. E. Kabir Assistant Professor, Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna – 9208, Bangladesh
R. Mowla Research Associate, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
M. N. Islam Lecturer, Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna – 9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2003.5.1.0308-L

Keywords:

Community Forestry; Woodlot; Preference index; Participation index; and Satisfaction Index.

Abstract

Community Forestry as any situation intimately involves local people in a forestry activity has widely been practiced in Bangladesh. The concepts embrace a range of situation, establishing woodlot which are short of wood and other forests products for local needs is one of them excluding large-scale industrial forestry. The study describes the social factors, which can broadly influence the process of CFW due to the differences in socio-economic setting from one social group to another even within the same biophysical settings. Data were collected from the people living in the vicinity of the Dhaka Forest Division, Bangladesh. Affiliation of social parameters only reveals the traditional method of prioritization on forest resources use by the local people and their preferences such as location, forest resources, species etc.; participation such as forest conservation and management activities and perception such as household forest resources needs. The most efficient outcome of this study is the invitation to revise the currently adopted methods in selecting suitable species and sites for CFW programme taking social parameters into consideration along with the existing biophysical setting.

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