Influence of mountainous residents livelihoods to living environment (a case study in thanh thach commune, tuyen hoa district, quang binh province). For nearly the past three decades, sustainable livelihoods have been worldwide seen as the most priority target in developing strategies. In Vietnam, despite a series of developing programs and projects launched by the local authorities, poverty and degrading environment has still been recurring problems. | No 6(31) – 2016, Dec. 2016 Scientific Journal Of Thu Dau Mot University INFLUENCE OF MOUNTAINOUS RESIDENTS LIVELIHOODS TO LIVING ENVIRONMENT (A CASE STUDY IN THANH THACH COMMUNE, TUYEN HOA DISTRICT, QUANG BINH PROVINCE) Ngo Hong Diep, Dinh Thi Yen Thu Dau Mot University ABSTRACT For nearly the past three decades, sustainable livelihoods have been worldwide seen as the most priority target in developing strategies. In Vietnam, despite a series of developing programs and projects launched by the local authorities, poverty and degrading environment has still been recurring problems. Poverty has been threatening the lives of people, especially of those living in rural and mountainous areas. Applying sustainable livelihoods framework and inter-disciplinary research methods, this writing would hope to figure out livelihoods and their influences on environment and living conditions in Thanh Thach commune, Tuyen Hoa district, Quang Binh province. The results have revealed that local people have still been living in poverty because of unsustainable livelihoods. To make a living, they have to take full advantages of available natural resources. That livelihood did not only make natural resources declined and exhausted, pushing their lives, in turn, into serious situations to permanently face with risks and challenges caused by natural disastes, but also make them failed to solve food security problems. Keywords: livelihoods, living environment, mountainous residents 1. INTRODUCTION Sustainable livelihoods are a very important problem to poor people in rural and mountainous areas. So, we have seen an increasing number of programs, developing projects that have been launched, and, theoretical studies and researches recently conducted and published by developing executors and some scholars [1-3]. In which, tests of the participatory research methods and implementary techniques to quick assess poverty in development of community livelihoods are widely acknowledged [2-7]. This
