Operations of the Network of Volunteers Protecting National Parks, Wildlife and Plants in Preventing and Solving Forest Fire Problems in Protectrd Forest Areas, Mae Ai District, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

          This study aimed to 1) All sectors have a collaborative network, Network model, Collaboration network process, and Working pattern and relationship of all sectors put Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation volunteers (DNP Volunteers) together. 2) All sectors participate with DNP volunteers in forest fire prevention and haze pollution in protected forest areas and 3) Cooperate process of DNP volunteers and All sectors to manage forest fire prevention and haze pollution problem. This qualitative research made use of in-depth interviews and focus groups who government officers, community leaders, network leaders, forest fire workers, and volunteers. The tools used in semi-structured interviews contain open-ended questions and data analysis was analytic induction.
           The results revealed that 1) All sectors cooperate with DNP volunteers for forest fire prevention and haze pollution consisting of the Subdistrict Headman, Village Headman, DNP volunteer leaders, and Villagers. They collaborate with government officers involved in assigning roles, and missions and exchanging information. The working patterns and relationships of     all sectors are formal and informal. 2) Participation in the collaboration network was government officers' awareness of the problem and open-mindedness for all sector's opinions. They had more roles, missions, and potential for reassurance and participation in decisions.   3) Participation was collaborative learning about activities processes and negotiation in     formal and informal. They have an MOU for accepting agreements and managing objectives. Therefore, the activities process was done and the performance together.