Study On The Dispute Of Mountain Forest Ownership In Zhejiang Province

Forest resources possess economic, ecological and social benefits for they are the material base of forestry production and reproduction on which human society depend and develop. With the development of science and technology and the continuous increase in population and forest resources exploitation, various discrepancies and controversies turn up and consequently the forest resources are threatened in a more and more severe way. The dispute over mountain forest ownership is a prominent problem in the management work in these regions. Without immediate settlement, the ceaseless dispute will not only affect the forestry production and construction and damage the forest resources, but also will bring about community incidents and threaten the safety of human life and wealth . Thus the countryside stability and notional unity will be badly influenced. The dispute has become a social problem and has attracted extensive attention from all circles of society.Zhejiang province is developed in economy but limited in resources with lots of mountains, few arable lands and a large population. This topography determines the great significance of forestry in economic and social development in the mountainous areas of Zhejiang Province which is particular in landform and underdeveloped in economy, culture and population quality. As a result, the mountainous regions are still inaccessible in information and backward in transportation facility and culture construction, so the peasants there are highly dependent on the forest resources. This particularity in landform causes frequent disputes over mountain forest ownership and enhances the difficulty in the related mediating work. There are indications that dispute of mountain forest ownership isfrequent in Zhejiang Province. On the grounds of incomplete statistics, since the reform and opening to the outside world, 260,000 issues on the forest ownership have been dealt with while about 1,000 issues still remain to be solved. And new issues keep turning up every year. For this reason, the Government at all levels of Zhejiang have been making unremitting efforts and doing a great deal of meticulous work for years for the settlement of these disputes, and the result is fruitful. However, the dispute of mountain forest ownership is a fully complicated problem induced by various complex factors , and thus a complete. systematic and scientific research is needed immediately in order to reveal the common laws for the development of effective measures to its resolution. Meanwhile, " the Fifteenth " Planning in Zhejiang and the Eleventh Provincial Party Congress propose simultaneously the target of the modernization of countryside and farming ahead of time as well as the target of "forging green Zhejiang, creating ecological province". But the underdevelopment of economy - culture and population quality in the mountainous regions will become the "bottleneck" in the realization of these goals which greatly depend on the forest resources on this region. Hence, it is of realistic and far-reaching historical significance to reinforce the research on the dispute over mountain forest ownership.Based on the above knowledge, this paper presents a relatively comprehensive research on the theory and practice about the controversy of rights of woods and mountains . It studies the dispute in a comprehensive way on the basis of materials inquiry and frequent investigations on the spot under the direction of policy, sociology and the science of law and economics. After detailed analysis of the history, feature and the present situation about the controversy on forest ownership , combining the actual situation in Zhejiang province, it carries on an exhaustive research in the causes of the controversy and elaborates systematically the significant problems such as the evidence and legal effect in the process of mediating work .It also makes a comparative analysis between the process, feature. effect factor and application design commonly used in mediating work.Through the research, the author holds...