Social capital and the collective management of resources

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dc.contributor.authorPretty, Julesen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:37Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:37Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractThe proposition that natural resources need protection from the destructive actions of people is widely accepted. Yet communities have shown in the past and increasingly today that they can collaborate for long-term resource management. The term social capital captures the idea that social bonds and norms are critical for sustainability. Where social capital is high in formalized groups, people have the confidence to invest in collective activities, knowing that others will do so too. Some 0.4 to 0.5 million groups have been established since the early 1990s for watershed, forest, irrigation, pest, wildlife, fishery, and microfinance management. These offer a route to sustainable management and governance of common resources.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier1060en
dc.identifier.citationScience 302(5652): 1912-1914en
dc.identifier.issn0036-8075en
dc.identifier.other1060_Pretty_Social_Capital_Collective_Managem.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65915en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.subjectCommon property resourcesen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectCollective actionen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleSocial capital and the collective management of resourcesen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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