Dear ICERD7th organizing committee,
We are grateful for your consideration of this abstract entitled “Rights over the protected lands: granting community usufruct rights to secure land use and forest conservation, a case study of Phu Kao-Phu Phan Kham National Park, Thailand” for consideration for oral presentation in ICERD 7th.
Our survey reveals the surprisingly severe anthropogenic damages on land used in tropical forests. We mankind are facing the permanent loss of tropical forests on the earth. Therefore, evaluation of the human effects on land used in the forest area is urgently needed. In this paper, we show a model of granting usufruct rights to communities may be able to help reducing conflicts between the Parks and communities but fails to tackle land encroachment issues.
We confirm that this research has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal. All of the authors have approved the manuscript and agree with its submission to ICERD.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have.