Community Network for Managing and Using the Ban Don Bay Area
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This research aims to investigate the law that governs the process and pattern of community participation in managing the Ban Don Bay area and study guidelines for managing the area by various organizations including community enterprise groups, local communities, and traditional communities to ensure the communities have a robust mechanism to drive development and contribute to the management of the Ban Don Bay area. The research method used for this study is Qualitative Research, involving document research mainly, such as books, articles, laws, and electronic media related to managing the Ban Don Bay area. Additionally, local information was collected from government officials, stakeholders, citizens, and community networks around the Ban Don Bay area via interviews based on research questions. Finally, the data was analyzed to achieve the research objectives.
The results of the research study indicated that the community network around the Ban Don Bay area was determined by both formal and informal laws. The formal laws included regulations for non-governmental organizations according to The Enhancement and Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act, B.E. 2535 (1992), coastal communities according to the Act on the Promotion of Marine and Coastal Resources Management B.E. 2558 (2015), and local fishing community organizations according to the Fisheries Royal Decree B.E. 2558 (2015). These laws mandated the participation of formal community organizations in managing fishing areas, aquaculture, and marine and coastal resources, thereby excluding informal community networks from participation. To ensure that the communities have a strong mechanism for the development and management of the Ban Don Bay area, a group of organizations, community enterprise groups, local communities, and traditional communities issued guidelines for managing the area. These guidelines stipulated that every sector, both public and private agencies, must reduce their power and increase the power of the people in managing marine and coastal natural resources. They must also review problem-solving, management, and law enforcement and allow the community to manage resources in public areas that are not owned by anyone based on social fairness for all parties and considering ecological sustainability. The author of the study suggests that the Department of Fisheries should register local fishing communities that occur naturally, while the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources should have legal duties to promote and support the participation of coastal communities and local government organizations.
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