Title: Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Abstract:Contents: 1. Social Capital and Sustainable Urban - Rural Relationships in the Global Knowledge Society Hans Westlund and Kiyoshi Kobayashi PART I: NEEDS AND PROBLEMS OF BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL 2. For...Contents: 1. Social Capital and Sustainable Urban - Rural Relationships in the Global Knowledge Society Hans Westlund and Kiyoshi Kobayashi PART I: NEEDS AND PROBLEMS OF BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL 2. Forest Governance and Social Capital: Structures and Functions Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Hatori and Hayeong Jeong 3. Joint Facilities, Improvement Districts, Clubs and Commons: Towards a Taxonomy of Institutionalised Social Capital Lars Westin and Johanna Zola 4. Foundations of Collective Action: Towards a General Theory Gautam Ray PART II: ANALYSES OF EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL 5. Does Social Capital Contribute to Regional Economic Growth? Swedish Experiences Kent Eliasson, Hans Westlund and Stefan Folster 6. Changes in Social Capital and Community Functions in Depopulated Areas from Case Studies of 12 Communities in the San'in District Katsuhisa Ito 7. Social Capital in Rural Poland: Between Tradition and Social Engineering Anna Gasior-Niemiec 8. Social Capital and Economic Growth in China's Provinces Yuheng Li and Hans Westlund PART III: PROBLEMS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL POLICIES 9. Social Capital and Place-based Policy: Aboriginal Communities in Canada M. Rose Olfert and David Natcher 10. What Can Local Policies Do? An Activity Theory Analysis of Municipal Support to Local Innovations Cecilia Waldenstrom 11. Local Responses to Structural Changes: Collective Action for Rural Communities in Sweden Anette Forsberg 12. Collective Actors as Driving Forces for Mobilizing Social Capital in a Local Community: What Can be Learned for Health Promotion? Malin Eriksson, Lars Dahlgren and Maria Emmelin 13. Social Capital for Sustainable Rural Regions: The Roles of Voluntary Association-Mediated Public Service Hayeong Jeong, Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Hans Westlund IndexRead More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-07-30
Language: en
Type: book
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