scholarly journals A call for collaboration: linking local and non-local rangeland communities to build resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
David Phelps ◽  
Dana Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Social Capitals

The people who live in Australia’s rangelands are vital for maintaining natural systems, agricultural production, infrastructure for tourism and many services and products which benefit the nation. However, the number of people living within many rangeland regions is declining, services are being withdrawn and resilience undermined. Social capital is an important concept within the resilience literature. Bonding social capital is based strong ties within relatively homogenous local groups, bridging social capital is based on ties between more diverse local groups and linking social capital is based on ties between local and external groups. Within the rangelands, there are often strong bonding and bridging social capitals based on internal social and formal connections, but gaps in linking social capital due to weak or imbalanced connections with external groups and organisations. There is evidence that all three social capitals are needed for regional resilience, and the gap in linking is thus a key issue. People who live outside the rangelands can help rebuild this resilience by linking their skills, knowledge and expertise with local groups and communities. Many city-based scientists, policy makers, influencers and other professionals work in and have empathy for the rangelands. By connecting meaningfully with local groups such as Landcare, service clubs, philanthropic groups or Indigenous Rangers, they would find many benefits to their own endeavours through improved policies, knowledge and service delivery. Central-western Queensland is provided as an example where many such mutual benefits and networks already exist, offering pathways for linking local residents with external experts. Current platforms offer opportunities for a greater range of external academic institutions and organisations to engage with locals, with everyone standing to gain.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CAPITAL DALAM KEWIRAUSAHAAN LOKAL, KAJIAN KETERLIBATAN MASYARAKAT DALAM PARIWISATA DI DELHA, KAB. ROTE NDAO, NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Fitri Ciptosari ◽  
Titi Susilowati Prabawa ◽  
Antonius Bele
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
History Approach

Entrepreneur is believed as the backbone of the economy. Very few studies in NTT, and none in Rote, have explored this area in the context of tourism. Based on ethnographic research, this study focuses on local tourism entrepreneurship in the context of socio-cultural complexities of Delha’s community, Rote. This qualitative research aimed to discusses how local entrepreneurs respond to every opportunity and challenge, due to cultural remoteness of host communities to tourism-related business. Data were collected with observations and in depth interview with life history approach. The findings show that social capital has been utilized by the local entrepreneur in responding to every opportunity and challenge. Bonding social capital has a large role at start up, while bridging social capital provides wider outside networks to maintain and develop bigger business. In this study, linking social capital has found very limited. Even though linking social capital plays an important role in supporting capital supports, business licenses, and other facilities that help a lot in business development. Given the literature, this is not a mainstream result, kinship and solidarity as a form of social capital does not always support the entrepreneurial process, particularly in the context of communal society. As a recommendation, the culture of collectivity that developed strongly in Delha community can be utilized as social capital in developing socio-enterprise. 

scholarly journals Education of Sociality in Small Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (91) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audronė Dumčienė ◽  
Dalia Lapėnienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital

Research background and hypothesis. Sociality in small communities leads to accrued social capital of bonding, bridging and linking. Education of community members’ sociality increases bonding, bridging and linking social capital of the community. Research aim of this study was to reveal the links between activity of community groups and community bonding, bridging and linking social capital. Research methods. The subjects flled in the questionnaire based on the research of F. J. Elgar et al. (2011). The sociality was associated with community social capital, namely its components of bonding social capital, bridging social capital and linking social capital. The subjects were asked to evaluate the items using Likert type 5 point scale. The participants were divided into two groups: engaged in community activities (240 people, among them 35% males and 65% females, mean age 48.52 years) and not engaged in activities (262 people, 62.6% females and 37.4% males, mean age 46.97 years). Research results. The estimates of both groups on bonding social capital scale were not statistically signifcant (p > 0.05). Statistically signifcant differences were found assessing the bridging social capital (p < 0.05; t = 4.56), and linking social capital (p < 0.05; t = 3.17) in both groups. Checking the differences of opinions between both groups of men – men and women – women showed statistically signifcant differences only for women’s bridging social capital (p < 0.05; t = 88.19) and linking social capital (p < 0.05; t = 4.01). Discussion and conclusions.The data confrmed the hypothesis that bridging and linking social capital was related to community engagement. The engaged participants indicated higher levels of bridging and linking social capital. Keywords: community, sociality, bonding social capital, bridging social capital, linking social capital.

scholarly journals Building a Disaster-Resilient Community in Taiwan: A Social Capital Analysis of the Meizhou Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hao Yang ◽  
Judy Shu-Hsien Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
National Disaster ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Resilience has always been key to successful disaster governance throughout the world. Local communities can play an important role in promoting disaster preparedness and executing front-line relief to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of both local and national disaster governance. This article addresses a unique case of how a flood-prone, rural, and ageing community in Yilan County, Taiwan, successfully mobilized its citizens for disaster preparedness. Through the lens of social capital analysis, this article unpacks how Bonding Social Capital, Bridging Social Capital, and Linking Social Capital work, by tracing the process through which awareness of disaster resilience was developed and practised in the Meizhou Community. Since 2012, Meizhou has been recognized as a model of disaster preparedness and relief in Taiwan, and in 2019 this recognition was extended to the wider Indo-Pacific region. We begin the discussion of this article by contextualizing social capital as a theoretical departure to the empirical analysis of the Meizhou experience. This is followed by an exploration of how Bonding Social Capital was able to consolidate the community, and how Bridging Social Capital can facilitate the collaboration among functional groups in and beyond the Meizhou locality, and to what extent Linking Social Capital can implement Meizhou’s experience on a national and even international scale. This article is based on a qualitative assessment of long-term fieldwork, interviews, and participatory observation conducted by the authors in the Meizhou community.

scholarly journals ANALISIS DAMPAK KEPEMILIKAN MODAL SOSIAL TERHADAP KEBERLANGSUNGAN INDUSTRI KECIL DI RUMAH MAKAN NISWA

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Lukas Sangka Pamungkas ◽  
Lasmono Tri Sunaryanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Horizontal Line ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Small Industry

The research purposes 1) Analyzing the social capital used by a business owner. That’s seen in social capital forms; bonding social capital, bridging social capital, and linking social capital. 2) Knowing the social capital ownership impact against the sustainability of small industry in niswa’s restaurant. The selection of research locations was conducted deliberately with consideration of the restaurant as a kind of a restaurant run by some family members in Salatiga and is a form of bonding social capital. It uses a qualitative method with descriptive design. A collected word or text information, then analyzed and interpreted to capture the deepest meanings. Studies have found that three important social capital forms like bonding, bridging, and linking together are linked and complementary ones Bonding social capital forms can be seen through the support of family members, even Key Informant could motivate his sons to join the business. The bridging social capital is the most dominating forms, as it placed the horizontal line. While linking social capital, indeed, doesn’t seem to have much influence in this research, because the owner has very little connection with vertical relationships, however, Key Informant still has ties to the banking system for acquiring capital.

scholarly journals Bonding Social Capital in Social Activities of Urang Banjar in the Martapura Riverbank

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Bambang Subiyakto ◽  
Nina Permata Sari ◽  
Mutiani Mutiani ◽  
M Faisal ◽  
Rusli Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Linking Social Capital

Kekuatan modal sosial dijelaskan secara teoritis melalui tiga tipologi, yaitu; bonding social capital, bridging social capital, dan linking social capital. Artikel ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan satu tipologi modal sosial yakni sistem perekat (bonding social capital). Perihal ini dimaksudkan agar memberikan analisis nilai apa yang menjadi pengikat-perekat pada Urang Banjar. Penelitian dilakukan di tiga kelurahan yang berbeda, antara lain: sungai jingah, sungai bilu, dan kuin. Pemilihan lokasi untuk memberikan representasi aktivitas sosial Urang Banjar di bantaran sungai. Pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif digunakan pada penelitian. Observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi dilakukan untuk mengumpulkan data penelitian. Analisis data model Miles dan Huberman yakni: reduksi data, penyajian data secara naratif, dan penarikan kesimpulan menghasilkan data yang redundan. Adapun uji keabsahan data dilakukan dengan teknik triangulasi. Hasil penelitian mendeskripsikan bonding social capital diwujudkan dalam aktivitas sosial gotong royong. Adapun aktivitas gotong royong tersebut antara lain; mengawah, babarasih, batimbuk/manimbuk, dan bahandil. Bonding social capital dipengaruhi oleh rasa kepercayaan satu sama lain. Kepercayaan kemudian dijadikan sebagai pegangan dalam berinteraksi sosial untuk mewadahi asosiasi sosial internal keluarga.

scholarly journals Social capital and economic growth in the regions of Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110000
Author(s):  
Jonathan Muringani ◽  
Rune D Fitjar ◽  
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
Lower Growth ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital

Social capital is an important factor explaining differences in economic growth among regions. However, the key distinction between bonding social capital, which can lead to lock-in and myopia, and bridging social capital, which promotes knowledge flows across diverse groups, has been overlooked in growth research. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by examining how bonding and bridging social capital affect regional economic growth, using data for 190 regions in 21 EU countries, covering eight waves of the European Social Survey between 2002 and 2016. The findings confirm that bridging social capital is linked to higher levels of regional economic growth. Bonding social capital is highly correlated with bridging social capital and associated with lower growth when this is controlled for. We do not find significantly different effects of bonding social capital in regions with more or less bridging social capital, or vice versa. We examine the interaction between social and human capital, finding that bridging social capital is fundamental for stimulating economic growth, especially in low-skilled regions. Human capital also moderates the relationship between bonding social capital and growth, reducing the negative externalities imposed by excessive bonding.

The Burden of Excessive “Linking Social Capital”

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 760-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Linking Social Capital ◽  
Bonding And Bridging ◽  
Vulnerable Households ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses the relationship between vulnerable households and local authorities during floods using the concept of linking social capital. The analysis combines a narrow operationalisation that measures the stock of linking social capital in vulnerable communities, with a broader operationalisation that seeks to address the nature of linking social capital. The empirical data, collected across four provinces in Central and North Vietnam, suggests that while a substantial stock of social linking capital exists in the vulnerable communities concerned, the nature of the relationship between the communities and local authorities during floods is characterised by top-down linkages and limited community autonomy. These linkages appear to be susceptible to social inertia during times of stress. They also undermine the development and reproduction of strong bonding and bridging social capital.

Enhancing social indicators research in a forest-dependent community

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 771-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Parkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Measure Change ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Northern Alberta

Forest industry host communities are receiving increased attention from policy makers, academics, and municipal leaders. Recently, this attention is trained on measuring social and economic change at the community level and on identifying and developing avenues to greater community well-being. This paper examines aspects of two common social indicators, employment and migration, in the context of a forest-dependent community in Northern Alberta. By using statistical information along with two other major data sources that include interviews with local residents and a variety of reports from local institutions, specific social changes taking place within the community are described. Readers are cautioned against relying solely on statistical information to measure change and are encouraged to triangulate data with local sources. Such efforts may be more time consuming but the results are likely to provide more important insights into how and why certain communities are prospering while others are struggling. The paper concludes with a discussion of social capital as a crucial dimension of community well-being. Key words: forest-dependent communities, social indicators, employment, migration, mobility, community well-being, social capital

scholarly journals Understanding the Potential Influence of WeChat Engagement on Bonding Capital, Bridging Capital and Electronic Word-of-Mouth Intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8489
Author(s):  
Hua Pang ◽  
Jingying Wang ◽  
Xiang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Electronic Word Of Mouth ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Capital

As the most prevalent social media platform in mainland China, WeChat enables interpersonal communication among users and serves as an innovative marketing platform for enterprises to interact with consumers. Although numerous studies have investigated the antecedents of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM), WeChat users’ specific behaviors still receive limited academic attention. Drawing from social capital theory and social exchange theory, this article develops a model to systematically explore three differentiated types of WeChat behaviors and their association with users’ social capital and e-WOM intention. The conceptual model is explicitly evaluated by utilizing web-based data gathered from 271 young people. Obtained results demonstrate the path effects indicating that: (1) WeChat use behaviors such as seeking, sharing, and liking can positively influence bonding social capital, while only the impacts of sharing and liking on bridging social capital are significant; (2) bonding and bridging social capital are both significant predictors of e-WOM intention, and bonding social capital is the more influential of the two; (3) bonding social capital partially mediates the effect of seeking on e-WOM intention. These findings are eloquent for researchers and operators to further grasp the increasing importance of WeChat adoption and social capital on young generations’ e-WOM intention in the evolving digital age.

scholarly journals Bridging and Bounding Social Capital: Social Interaction Analysis of Islets Islanders in Wakatobi Marine National Park

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Taane La Ola ◽  
Nur Isiyana Wianti ◽  
Muslim Tadjuddah
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
National Park ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the differences in the strength of social capital that is bonding and bridging two community groups, namely land-dwellers and Sama Bajo boat-dwellers in three islands in Wakatobi Marine National Park. This study used a post-positivistic research paradigm, and the primary data were collected by using a questionnaire to 240 respondents who represented the group of land-dwellers and Sama Bajo boat-dwellers on the islands of Wangi-wangi, Kaledupa, and Tomia. This research was also supported by qualitative data through in-depth interviews from several informants and desk studies. The results showed that bridging social capital relations tend to be weak in the two forms of interactions between the Sama Bajo and the land-dwellers on Wangi-wangi Island and Kaledupa Island, while bridging social capital tend to be secured in Tomia Island. We found that the social context through the historical links in the past and identity played a role in the relationship of bridging social capital and bonding social capital in the three communities as an analytical unit of this research.  

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