Studies On The Legal Questions Of Community Co-management Of Nature Reserves In China

Nature reserves result from people's excessive utilization of natural resources and destruction of environment. As the special area for protecting and resuming natural environment in one country, nature reserve is one of environmental elements, which is the strict and effective form for protecting the natural ecological environment. In recent years, construction and management levels of nature reserves become one of the important standards of weighing a national civilization degree and the environmental health level.There are more than 10% world animals and plants species in China. These days the total amount of nature reserves has already reached 1,757 and the whole area is up to 133 million hectares in our country. The nature reserves have made great achievements in protecting bio-diversity. But the unilateral management in our country for a long time ignores the residents' interests demands in the protection zone and its peripheral community. As a result, there is serious conflict between protecting and developing, which is the enormous threat to our country's sustainable development strategy.Facing such problem, on the basis of practices of our country's community co-management activities, this thesis analyzes the necessity and feasibility of community co-management, and provides some suggestions on the legal system of community co-management of nature reserves.The thesis is divided into four parts altogether:Chapter lis the general ideas about nature reserves, including the concepts, the purposes and the functions of setting up nature reserves, and general situation of nature reserves in our country.Chapter 2 provides the origin and development of community co-management, explaining its origin, and the rules of law and policies about community co-management of international community.Chapter 3 analyzes community co-management of nature reserves in our country, including concepts , characters, three ideas of setting up it and the rules of law and polices.Chapter 4 is about several thoughts on structuring the legal system of community co-management of nature reserves in our country, including the achievements of our country's practices, and suggestions on the legal system of community co-management of our country.