Research On The Vulnerability Of Community Co-management Of Forest

At the present time, community co-management has achieved some success in solving conflict between forest protection and community development. In some degree, community co-management has reduced the contradiction between natural reserve and neighboring community, and has increased people's protection awareness. Biodiversity has been effectively protected by community co-management. Community co-management has also promoted sustainable economic development in neighboring community. However, in the course of implementation, vulnerability of community co-management appeared. This vulnerability has blocked community co-management to operate in forest protection effectively. We must resolve this vulnerability in order to make community co-management efficient. We have no enough experience on how to implement community co-management and how to reduce vulnerability. Therefore, it is very necessary to research on vulnerability of community co-management in forest.Under the background, I used quantitative and qualitative methods to research the vulnerability of community co-management in forest resources. I defined the vulnerability of community co-management in forest and explained its external character based on vulnerability theory. Then, I analyzed the main factors affecting the vulnerability of community co-management, and chose key factors. I constructed the index system on measuring vulnerability of community co-management in forest. I estimated the vulnerability of three villages in Baishuijiang nature reserve in Gansu province, and got the different results. Finally, I put forward several suggestions to reduce the vulnerability of community co-management.