The community resilience analysis of Community-Based Forest Management program in the Philippines

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This research proposes and empirically tests a framework that integrates concepts of community resilience and social-ecological system (SES) resilience on community forestry case studies. The framework provides a possible approach for assessing community resilience based on the development and allocation of socio-cultural, economic, and natural capital of individual households within a given forest community.
This study takes community forestry groups as a case of an SES in which the community is an important stakeholder in managing natural forest capital resources. The selected case study sites are pioneer Community-Based Forest Management Program (CBFM) communities in the Philippines. The CBFM group members exhibit moderate levels of resilience on the average according to the acquired levels of capital, thus the CBFM program has a positive effect in increasing socio-cultural and natural capital of an entire community although economic capital remains weakest.