Abstract:
The objective of this research is to study he level of participation of community committee, the factors affecting to the participation of community committee, problems and obstacles of participation of community committee in environmental management. The researcher selects participation of community committee in Phra Nakhon district as the case study by using the questionnaire as survey research method on examining 139 respondents from 20 communities dwelling in Phra Nakhon district according to Taro Yamane formula and using ratio percentage statistic, mean, standard deviation as well as t-test analysis.
The research result shows that that the amount of female and male respondents are not quite different which are 50.4 % and 49.6% respectively. The arithematic mean age is 47 and their educational background are mainly high school and vocational certificates level. Most of them are vendors with 5,000-10,000 bath/month. They work as community committee and live in this community approximately 38 years. 78.4% of all respondents mostly gains environmental information from newspaper and television.
92.8% of the respondents have good understanding pertaining to the environment and environmental management. They are rarely encouraged by local politicians, government or