Author: Chanthaviphone Inthavong
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-00-30
Year: 2000
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2000
Examination Committee: Edward L. Webb (Chairperson); Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Gopal B. Thapa (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Despite wide spread interest and general concern for sustainable forest products in community based managed forests, many interested parties are ill-equipped to judge if the concerned community forests could sustainably produce forest products such as wood (timber and firewood) to meet the requirement of local need. The assessment of the sustainability of forest management practices in natural tropical forests, particularly under communal management regimes, designed for production of timber and wood multiple products is a particularly vexing problem due to the lack of stand structure, growth and yield data. The present study is seeking to explore about the growth and community management of natural pine forest, particularly the existing rate consumption, harvest of and perceptions of local communities towards Pinus kesiya wood products and forest. Ban Nanou of Muang Peak district, Xiengkhouang province, which has considerable natural pine forest in their territory were selected as the study site. In order to evaluate the likely long-term effects of existing management practices on· the forest condition, a diameter class growth model was developed and used for all the 3 different forest types (based on stand density class) found in the study area. In the study, stand-level sustainability was used to measure the sustainability of the study forest. The condition of the pine forest in the study village was variable. The numbers of stems per hectare found in the open and medium forest types are equal to only one fourth (25 %) and one half (50 %) respectively to the total stem number of the dense forest types. Within a same density class, the number of stems per hectare was initially decreasing very fast then gradually slowdown through the increased in age class. The decrease typically followed the so-call 3/2 law of self-thinning . The forest types that have the highest standing over bark (ob) volume per hectare were mature and old dense forest types, which have 113 m3 and 181 m3 of standing ob volume per hec
Scholarship Donor(s): DANIDA-AIT Cooperation Programme
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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