Reformulation Environmental Protection Area Policy at Bang Kachao

Abstract

This research is qualitative research and the purposes of this research were 1) to problem identification of environmental protection area policy 2) to impact analysis of environmental protection area policy and, 3) to offer guidelines policy reformulation environmental protection area. Key informants were consisted of 1) community leaders 2) government officer and, 3) people in the area. The instruments used in the research were semi – structured interview, focus group discussion and percentage questionnaire.

            The results revealed that 1) The environmental protection area policy were done by issuing ministerial regulation to enforcement for people and the government agency in that area. Then the government agency has to restrict some rights for people who lived in the area. 2) The environmental protection area policy to impacted on people both positive and negative. 3) The policy reformulation environmental protection area must allow people in the area to participate in the policy formulation and to acknowledge basic information and people’s needs in the area. In order to decrease the negative impacted to people in that area, before the implementation based on the concept of New Public Service.