A Study On The Model Of Nature Reserve Management Based On Stakeholder Analysis

There are series of nature reserve management problems arising from the conflicts between natural resources’ exploitation and its conservation following with the local societies’ economic development recently, which threaten the ecological protection, and the survival and reproduction of wildlife within nature reserves in China. This thesis studies stakeholders in Snake Island-Laotie Mountain National Nature Reserve (SILMNNR) by using the methods of reference analysis, stakeholder analysis, social network analysis, game analysis and social survey, which provide theoretic basis for establishing a model of nature reserve management and relieving the conflicting problems in it.It considers human and nature as the entirety learning from the concept framework and organization structure of HEC, the complexities of Coupled Human and Nature Systems (CHANS), and stakeholder analysis theory. Then, it concludes a theoretic framework as the study basis for analyzing nature reserve HEC. According to the framework, it understands the specific problems in the management of SILMNNR through the conflicting analysis of components in the HEC. Also, it analyzes the stakeholders, and concludes the current unbalanced model of the SILMNNR-HEC’s operation and deduces its balanced model. Then, it discusses three approaches of transforming the current operation model to the sustainable one based on the complexities of CHANS, including stakeholder relationships from opposition to cooperation, and their weak feedbacks to strong supports, and support from long-term research. Besides, it analyzes dynamic factors of influencing the SILMNNR-HEC’s operation by means of stakeholder game analysis and the analysis of main stakeholders’ influencing on its operation. They are management sectors, local residents and enterprises. The stakeholders’ influencing factors are concluded as four aspects:management, social progress, economic development and multi-stakeholders’ cooperation. Moreover, there are some specific influencing factors or implementary measures in each aspect, which will advance their dynamic supports towards the SILMNNR-HEC operation through improving these specific factors.Finally, on the basis of the balanced model and influencing factors of the SILMNNR’s operation, it constructs a reciprocal supportive, equal feedback and balanced model for nature reserve management, in which, management, social progress, economic development, and multi-stakeholders’ cooperation support the sustainability of natural resources together, and mutually support between themselves as well. In practice, this model can be achieved by establishing a stakeholder cooperative management committee, which provides dynamic stays both for the sustainability of the whole system and their own development objectives respectively. In addition, it discusses the necessities, possibilities and challenges of the model being carried out in China, and demonstrating the critical factors of the implement from multiple aspects, which provides a reference both for the theoretic development of nature reserve management, and for practicing in other nature reserves management with similar backgrounds and problems in China.