Abstract:

The reform of the southern collective forest property rights system has brought about a basic structure with decentralizing management on a household basis being the main body in southern collective forest areas. It has been an inevitable trend to practice forestry scale operation through reasonable and systematic forestland circulation and transfer under the precondition of clarifying property rights of management subjects. This paper, based on the case of L County Hunan Province, using the methods of participatory rural appraisal and questionnaire survey, briefly reviews the operation pattern of different types forestland and the circulation desires, analyzes the motives of forestland circulation ,and then points out the appropriate route choice of forestland circulation forms.

Key words: forestland use rights circulation and transfer, models, motives, route choice, collective forestry-region