Community forest management (CFM) has received increasing worldwide attention from governments, researchers and educational institutions over the past two decades. cannot transfer appropriate technology to community people due to lack of legal support, (iii) scope for developing effective strategies for sustainable CFM by combining traditional knowledge with existing scientific knowledge is limited, (iv) a formal institutional arrangement for CFM does not exist, and (v) community members' access to the hard technology of CFM is limited. Therefore, in addition to legalizing CFM, a 2 formal institutional framework for elaboration, implementation and control of CFM is essential to achieve sustainable CFM in Thailand.

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