Investigating The Effect of The Settlement on The Sustainable Livelihoods of The Nomads in Semirom County

One of the strategies for diversification of livelihood in nomad society has been the settlement of nomads and the establishment of permanent nomad settlements while, its impact has not yet been accurately assessed on the sustainable livelihood of nomad housholds. This research aimed to investigate the impact of nomads’ settlement on sustainable livelihoods in Semirom County. The research design was semi-experiment and carried out based on survey strategy. The target population of study included two groups of nomadic tribes (N=4845) and settled nomads (N=350). Through Cochran formula 150 households from each group were selected as research samples. The sample was selected by stratified appropriate sampling technique within 2 settlement sites and 5 nomad tribes. Results showed that natural and financial capitals and total assets were lesser than average and in inappropriate position among both nomads groups. Results of Independent t-test indicated that there are significant difference between two groups of households regarding physical, natural, financial capital and total assets. Assessing vulnerable trends indicated that some items such increased employment opportunities, enhanced income and family purchase power have more importance to decrease vulnerability among nomad households. While some items such increased in construction and development, enhanced local security and increased family solidarity and union have more importance to decrease vulnerability among settled households. Moreover items such inflation and increased prices and variation in meat price have more importance to increase vulnerability among two group of households.