Abstract:
The objective of this research was to study peoples way of life, and administration and management of Baan Eua-a-thon Community, Udontani Province 3 (Banjan) by using qualitative research method from the field study. The area of study consisted of Baan Eua-a-thon Community, Udon Thani Province 3 (Banjan), Moo 1, Banjan Subdistrict, Udontani Province, including 428 households, 938 population, 53 key informants, 43 households of dwellers, 5 community boards, and 6 persons of state enterprise public sectors. They were selected by Purposive Sampling. The instruments used in this study consisted of both structured interview, and unstructured interview. Data were collected by observation and interview techniques. The statistic and data analysis were conducted by content analysis, and categorizing the concepts from concrete or experienced phenomenon. Then, they were interpreted as well as developed the analytic induction The research findings found as follows: The peoples way of life in Baan Eua-a-thon Community, Udontani Province 3 (Banjan), for the situation of livelihood in physical aspect, found that the Eua-a-thon Housing Community was adequately physical situated which was good as well as standardized including basic public utility in order to serve the need of low-income dwellers. For environmental aspect, the scenery as well as environment in community were beautiful, peaceful, clean, and nice to live. For social and cultural aspect, community had quality of life, warm society, culture and tradition with good relationship with each other. For economic aspect, there were changes in new occupation and work origin in order to be relevant to environmental condition as well as living place. Community administration and management of Baan Eua-a-thon Community, Udontani Province, in the physical and environmental aspect, found that there was systematic community services. For community property and community business development, there was no readiness in administration and management. For organizational management of community and society, and quality of life development, every division in community had good collaboration, shared responsibility, and awareness of community development. For debtor management, found that there were no problems since the dwellers paid directly at the bank. For water activity management, it was satisfied by the community people. The conclusions of this study were as follows: The way of life in Baan Eua-a-thon Community, Udontani Province 3 (Banjan) was changed in their physical, environmental, social, cultural, and economic aspects. There were major findings as: the moving to live in new community caused the changes in their way of life in occupation and management. The recommendations of this study were the planning for developing low income people s way of life, the integrated guidelines for developing Baan Eua-a-thon Community so that the sustainably nice-living place had to be constructed by the government further.