Research On Institution Of Community Co-management Of Forest Resources

Research on institution of community co-management in forest is a theme of institutional arrangement essentially. Based on theories of institution economics about Marx and New Institutional Economics which including property rights, institution innovation and transition, this paper points out that institution arrangement, which is a problem of institutional structure, should include government' s institutional supply, market institution and community institution. The new institutional arrangement means denial and transition of the initial reasonless institution, so avoiding government failure and market failure by institutional revising must be done. Compared with the controlling by government, the co-management has some performances about institutional innovation and transition which contribute a lot to the superiority.The thesis is divided into six parts. First of all, this paper argues the background, purpose, means, actual state of the study and the research path. Secondly, this paper defines several correlative notions and points out the content of research based on economics theories.Thirdly, this research is on institutional structure of community co-management including government' s institutional supply,market institution and community institution, then revises government failure and market failure throngh institutional transition. Fourthly, this paper compares co-management to controlling by government , the first has some performances from theory perspective. Fifthly, this paper takes institutional transition as the main path, studying on case of Baishuijiang State-level Nature Reserve to illuminate institutional superiority of co-management.At last, this paper puts forward a set of institutional innovation to support nativism of co-management.