Exploring Social Capital in Chile's Coastal Benthic Comanagement System Using a Network Approach
By Andrés Marín, S. Gelcich, J. Castilla, Fikret Berkes. 2012
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Comanagement success relies on the proper administration of resources and on the capacity of users to establish and maintain positive social relationships with multiple actors. We assessed multifunctional relationships of small-scale artisanal fisher organizations engaged in a coastal benthic resources comanagement system in Chile to explore bridging and linking social capital, using an egocentric network approach. The formal leaders of 38 small-scale fisher organizations were surveyed to investigate (1) similarities and differences in social capital among fisher organizations and regions, and (2) possible effects of social capital levels on comanagement performance. Results show that the best performing fisher organizations are those with higher levels of linking and bridging social capital. Positive and strong correlations exist between linking social capital levels and comanagement performance variables. Importantly, fisher organizations considered to manage resources successfully consistently presented high levels of linking social capital, irrespective of variability in bridging social capital. Using egocentric networks allows understanding actors' differences in the comanagement social structure, thus providing critical insights for improving comanagement systems.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- S. Gelcich
- J. Cinner
- C. Donlan
- Sebastian Tapia‐Lewin
- Natalio Godoy
- J. Castilla
- S. Aswani
- T. McClanahan
Citations in the corpus
- Fishers' perceptions on the Chilean coastal TURF system after two decades: problems, benefits, and emerging needs (2017, background): “It is often perceived that the implementation of TURFs has been a positive change agent, in which fishing communities have commonly self-organized and created social capital via partnership with the government, universities, and the private sector (Schumann 2007, Marín et al. 2012).”