广西龙胜各族自治大寨村以村寨共同体为主的森林资源管理.PDF

● Article ● 广西龙胜 县 各族自治 大寨村以村寨 共同体为 资 主的森林 源管理 菊　池　真　纯 Village-based Forest Management in Dazhai Village, Longsheng County, Guangxi Prefecture, China Masumi KIKUCHI Abstract Yao people have been self-sufficient through the cultivation of terraces for over years in Dazhai village Guangxi Prefecture of China. As the village assigns tracts of forests to households, it regards water sources and the forest plots as part of a contract responsibility system, and manages the land resources as collectively owned. This paper discusses the following two issues: first, to study the traditional values and regulations that sustain the system of collective ownership over forest water sources in Dazhai village, second, to investigate the village commons that manages natural resources in the remote districts of Southern China. In order to investigate these two issues, the first thing above all is to list the debates within J apan on the community-based resource management of rural villages in China. Many scholars in J apan argue that unlike J apanese village commons, rural China does not possess strong community structures to manage natural resources. Some arguments of this issue are questionable. In order to respond to these arguments and to criticize the current researches within the field examples, this paper endeavors to understand the history of forest management in Daz