A VIEW ON SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD IN RURAL SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATED RESULTS

Livelihood means thinking about access to properties and management to maintain them. Sustainable livelihood is an approach for poverty alleviation in which possessions of the poor are focused. In this regard, knowledge of the poor from their society, accessible resources and their livelihood are studied and considered as wealth of the poor. Comparing previous studies and structure of sustainable livelihood in various organizations, it seems that there are many common factors among used different approaches; however, operational focuses can be different in researches. One important similarity in all approach is five-part structure presented by International Development Department in 1999. This structure emphasizes on a people-oriented approach based on five major features of sustainable livelihood approach which are: properties, policy making and institutions, vulnerability, strategies and consequences. Results of previous studies on mentioned strategies show that regarding livelihood properties by planning and appropriate policies corresponding to social, economic, cultural and environmental structures of rural districts and by using available capacities and abilities of rural districts and considering tourism development can be considered as a supplementary activity to verify livelihood activities in line of aching rural sustainable livelihood and regarding principles of sustainable development. Although, rural societies for their livelihood should attain various kinds of resources including a part of properties such as what is mooted under title of concepts of human, cultural, social, productive and natural capitals within frame of sustainable livelihood.