Abstract

Identifying the influence factors lie behind the livelihood choices of rural households are of crucial significance for improving the sustainable livelihoods of rural households in tourism regions. Five villages in Sa Pa District, Vietnam, were selected in this study, to conduct household surveys and interviews with 180 households. Based on this, a comprehensive approach, which includes multinomial/binary logistic regression, Ripley’s function, and geographical detector, is applied to understand the households’ capital endowment and factors lie behind their livelihood choices. Results show that for rural households, tourism livelihood yields the highest income, but the lack of diversity of livelihood activities may make tourism livelihood household more vulnerable to the external risk and shocks than balanced livelihood households. Different types of households are found to show clustering feature, with clustering degree ranking as: agricultural > balanced > tourism > labour. Households with more natural capital are less likely to choose livelihoods other than agriculture livelihood. And households with more financial capital are less likely to engage in agricultural livelihood. Both financial capital and social capital can facilitate engagement in balanced livelihood. And financial capital is key to tourism livelihood, and a barrier impeding agricultural households to participate in other livelihood activities.

摘要

找出影响农户生计选择的影响因素，对于改善旅游区农户的可持续生计具有重要意义。本研究选取越南沙坝区的 5 个村庄，对 180 户家庭进行入户调查和访谈。在此基础上，应用多项/二元逻辑回归、Ripley 函数和地理探测器等综合方法来了解家庭的资本禀赋及其生计选择背后的因素。结果表明，对于农村家庭来说，旅游生计收入最高，但生计活动缺乏多样性可能使旅游生计家庭比平衡生计家庭更容易受到外部风险和冲击。不同类型的住户表现出聚类特征，聚类程度排序为：农业>平衡>旅游>劳动力。拥有更多自然资本的家庭不太可能选择农业生计以外的生计。拥有更多金融资本的家庭不太可能从事农业生计。金融资本和社会资本都可以促进参与平衡生计。而金融资本是旅游生计的关键，也是阻碍农户参与其他生计活动的障碍。拥有更多金融资本的家庭不太可能从事农业生计。金融资本和社会资本都可以促进参与平衡生计。而金融资本是旅游生计的关键，也是阻碍农户参与其他生计活动的障碍。拥有更多金融资本的家庭不太可能从事农业生计。金融资本和社会资本都可以促进参与平衡生计。而金融资本是旅游生计的关键，也是阻碍农户参与其他生计活动的障碍。