The main objective of sustainable forest management is to meet the needs and aspirations of the current generation without damaging future generations. Preventing local people from overutilizing forests has proven unsuccessful in top-down type governmental forest policies due to the difficulties of monitoring and enforcement
Thus, forest management policies have shifted toward people-oriented management
and the provision of a continuous flow of multiple benefits.This trend has been supported by scientists
discusses incentive structures in social forestry programs through field observation and
interviews with members of such programs and finds that the transfer of rights from the state to community members is a useful approach to establish an effective incentive structure. However, the degree of community participation depends on the incentive
structure and the existing social capital. In summary, past works have focused primarily on analyzing socio-economic factors affecting people's motivation for community participation; the results appear to reach a consensus that relations between members and management authorities, the incentive structure of sharing benefits, and social capital are important determinants