Institutional arrangements for community-based Mangrove forest management in Giao Lac Village, Giao Thuy District, Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam.

摘要

Although community-based natural resource management attracts international attention, it has not yet been widely implemented in Vietnam. The main strategies have been centralized management by state agencies and private management by individual households. This article argues that the promotion of nationalization or privatization has not solved the problem of resource degradation and overexploitation, as illustrated by a case study of mangrove forest management in Giao Lac village, Vietnam. It issuggested that a practical combination of 3 strategies: nationalization; privatization; and community-based management is valid in the context of Giao Lac Village, where the dyke system is managed by state agencies, shrimp ponds are managed at the household level, and mangrove forests are protected by the whole community.