Sustainable Development of Human and Social Capital in a Socioeconomically Challenged Community in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Renuka Vivekananthan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human And Social Capital

scholarly journals Communities, Climate Change Adaptation and Win–Win Solutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 445-454
Author(s):  
A. K. Enamul Haque ◽  
Pranab Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Mani Nepal ◽  
Md Rumi Shammin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
Human And Social Capital

AbstractEngaging with communities at the grassroots level and empowering local institutions are critical for building resilient communities in South Asia in the context of numerous vulnerabilities created by climate change. This chapter summarises the key lessons that document how communities are adapting by reinventing traditional practices, adopting new technologies, or building human and social capital. These lessons are important because they provide pathways for others to learn from and for policies and practices to evolve to build resilience among vulnerable populations. Local adaptation by communities also helps meet the larger sustainable development challenges of the region.

Ethnic niching in a segmented labour market: Evidence from Spain

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikolaj Stanek ◽  
Alberto Veira
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Human And Social Capital

Using the Spanish National Immigrant Survey (NIS-2007) we identify the ethnic niches where workers from five main immigrant communities concentrate. We then implement logit models in order to assess how structural factors and human and social capital variables affect the odds of working in these niches. We observe that the strong segmentation of the Spanish labour market strongly favours the concentration of immigrants in certain occupational niches. Nevertheless, variables related to human and social capital still play a significant role in the placement of immigrant workers in different niches, all of which are not equally attractive. 

A successful person, society and civic activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1800-1816
Author(s):  
G.B. Kozyreva ◽  
T.V. Morozova ◽  
R.V. Belaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Person Model ◽  
Social Disparity

Subject. The article provides considerations on the formation and development of a successful person model in the modern Russian society. Objectives. The study is an attempt to model a successful person in the Russian society, when the ideological subsystem of the institutional matrix is changing. Methods. The study relies upon the theory of institutional matrices by S. Kirdina, theories of human and social capital. We focus on the assumption viewing a person as a carrier of social capital, which conveys a success, socio-economic position, social status, civic activism, doing good to your family and the public, confidence in people and association with your region. The empirical framework comprises data of the sociological survey of the Russian population in 2018. The data were processed through the factor analysis. Results. We devised a model of a successful person in today's Russian society, which reveals that a success, first of all, depends on the economic wellbeing and has little relation to civic activism. The potential involvement (intention, possibility, preparedness) in the social and political life significantly dominates the real engagement of people. The success has a frail correlation with constituents of the social capital, such as confidence in people and doing good to the public. Conclusions and Relevance. Based on the socio-economic wellbeing, that is consumption, the existing model of a successful person proves to be ineffective. The sustainability of socio-economic wellbeing seriously contributes to the social disparity of opportunities, which drive a contemporary Russian to a success in life.

scholarly journals A Framework of Professional Transferable Competences for System Innovation: Enabling Leadership and Agency for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1737
Author(s):  
José M. Peiró ◽  
Vicente Martínez-Tur ◽  
Nanja Nagorny-Koring ◽  
Christoph Auch
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
System Innovation ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Certification Procedure ◽  
Competence Framework ◽  
Human And Social Capital

System Innovation (SI) is a critical approach in driving individual and collective actions towards sustainable development (SD). This article presents the validation process of the Climate-KIC Professional Competence Framework (CF) for SI. This framework is based on principles of system thinking and the need for human capital to deal with challenges related to long-term sustainability. It comprises twenty competences grouped into five stages that describe contexts where professionals implement transformations: Exploring, Framing, Designing, Implementing and Strengthening. The stages are not linear or strictly sequential because overlapping and loops are frequent in transformational and disruptive changes. The CF fulfils several functions in the development of human and social capital: competences’ assessment, their development and training, and their certification to make them more interpretable in the labour market. The methodology for assessing professionals’ competences and the certification procedure are described. Overall, the CF aims to promote the development and visibility of human capital in a critical area for sustainability.

University Graduates’ Employability, Employment Status, and Job Quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente González-Romá ◽  
Juan Pablo Gamboa ◽  
José M. Peiró
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Hierarchical Level ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Career Identity ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
The University

We investigated whether a set of indicators of the employability dimensions proposed by Fugate, Kinicki, and Asforth (i.e., career identity, personal adaptability, and human and social capital) are related to university graduates’ employment status and five indicators of the quality of their jobs (pay, hierarchical level, vertical and horizontal match, and job satisfaction). We analyzed a representative sample of university graduates ( N = 7,881) from the population of graduates who obtained their degree from the University of Valencia in the period 2006–2010. The results showed that indicators of human and social capital were related to employment status, whereas indicators of human and social capital and career identity were related to distinct job quality indicators. These results support the validity of the conceptual model proposed by Fugate et al. to investigate employability in samples of university graduates.

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