Voo, Peter Su Kiong and Abrar J. Mohammed and Makoto Inoue (2016) Community Use Zone (CUZ) model and its outcome in Malaysia case study from Crocker Range Park, Sabah. Journal of Management and Sustainability, 6 (3). pp. 25-33. ISSN 1925-4733
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Abstract
The Sabah Parks has been experimenting with a new approach to forest governance, namely Community Use Zone (CUZ), in order to safeguard the forests from ongoing degradation while simultaneously providing opportunities for the affected communities to improve their living conditions and livelihoods. Despite the ongoing discourse to expand this approach, there is limited systematic study to understand the changes in governance as well as linking it to forest and livelihood outcomes. By conducting structured and semi-structured questionnaire interview to CUZ and non-CUZ community members as well as Crocker Range Park staffs, this study clarifies the changes in involvement of local people in rule making and implementation of diverse forest management activities and governance decisions as well as forest and livelihood outcomes from CUZ. The result showed that local people participation in rule making and implementation is enhanced after implementation of CUZ. While the forest outcome remains mixed, the CUZ has brought positive impact to the livelihood of the participants. CUZ also has positive externality to neighboring community in terms of their attitude towards the program.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | CUZ, forest governance, community participation, livelihood change, forest conservation, Malaysia |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SD Forestry |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Psychology and Education |
| Depositing User: | MUNIRA BINTI MARASAN - |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2018 11:08 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jan 2021 18:42 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19110 |
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