Rangeland Privatization and the Maasai Experience: Social Capital and the Implications for Traditional Resource Management in Southern Kenya

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiloh Sundstrom ◽  
Joanne F. Tynon ◽  
David Western
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Traditional Resource Management

scholarly journals Assessing the influence of social capital on water point sustainability in rural Ethiopia

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret T. Person ◽  
Maryann G. Delea ◽  
Joshua V. Garn ◽  
Kelly Alexander ◽  
Bekele Abaire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Rural Ethiopia ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Water Point ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Despite considerable investment, sustainability of rural water resources remains a critical challenge in Ethiopia. Evidence suggests social capital – the networks, norms, and trust that facilitate cooperative behaviors – influences a community's ability to manage communal water resources. In turn, strong community governance of water resources may lead to sustainable resource management. Existing evidence provides a framework for exploring the relationship between social capital and governance of common-pool resources. However, there is a dearth of quantifiable evidence demonstrating the relationship between social capital, collaborative governance, and, in turn, sustainability of communal water resources. In 32 communities in rural Ethiopia, we employed a validated survey tool, developed by the World Bank, to quantify social capital and explore these relationships. We found associations between governance and several social capital domains: groups and networks, trust and solidarity, and information and communication. All governance indicators were associated with functionality. Identifying domains of social capital that influence governance can inform institutional efforts to target community-based water resource programming, foster social capital to improve water point sustainability, and diagnose issues related to resource management. Additional research examining the influence and directionality of social capital and other social constructs on water resource governance and functionality is warranted.

Bonding and bridging social capital towards collective action in participatory irrigation management. Evidence in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Llones ◽  
Panya Mankeb ◽  
Unggoon Wongtragoon ◽  
Suneeporn Suwanmaneepong
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Shared Resource ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Participatory Irrigation Management ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social capital with bonding and bridging distinction in promoting higher participation in collective action in participatory irrigation management.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 304 farmers was surveyed using a structured questionnaire. A focus group discussion was also carried out with randomly selected water users, leaders and irrigation officers. A confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling were used to test the hypothesised relationship of bonding and bridging social capital towards collective action.FindingsThe findings show that social capital has a significant direct effect on collective action and an indirect effect on joint irrigation management's perceived performance through collective action (mediator). It implies the need to complement the participatory irrigation management programme with an understanding of the social aspects for a higher farmer's participation over the shared resource.Originality/valueThe paper emphasises social capital's role in facilitating a real participatory engagement in shared resource management. Also, it is the first scholarly work linking social capital with bonding and bridging distinction towards collective action in a joint resource management context.

scholarly journals Normative and systems integration in human resource management in Japanese multinational companies

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Furusawa ◽  
Chris Brewster ◽  
Toshinori Takashina
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Systems Integration ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
International Hrm

Purpose This paper aims to conceptualise a framework of “transnational human resource management” (HRM) and to demonstrate the validity of the model. Design/methodology/approach Evidence is drawn from survey of 93 large Japanese multinational companies (MNCs). Data are analysed through descriptive statistics, hierarchical multiple regression analyses and mediation effect analyses. Findings The analysis reveals that the practices for normative and systems integration are associated with increasing levels of social capital and geocentric staffing, respectively, and the social capital and geocentric staffing fully mediate the relationship between normative and systems integration and transnationality. Originality/value The research extends the integration theory in international HRM and demonstrates the validity of our framework for transnational HRM. The authors also shed light on the reality of the integration aspects of international HRM in Japanese MNCs.

Washington Watch

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-23 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Traditional Resource Management

Does anyone seriously think cultural anthropology or ethnography can contribute to the protection of domestic cultural and natural resources? Can the field really help preservation agencies identify natural places or sites and structures that have been, and still are, pivotal to the viability of American cultures, including Native American? Can cultural anthropologists actually analyze and explain traditional resource management systems so that conservation agencies understand them and their long-term effects on the habitat? Perhaps anthropologists are prepared to act on the view that it is both possible and desirable to address cultural resource management from a holistic perspective which, as Kealiinohomoku discussed (PA 9 [4], 1987), would bring ethnographic data and methods to bear on relationships between cultural systems, their carriers, and the materials they produce?

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