Foundations of Social Capital

By Elinor Ostrom, T. Ahn. 2003

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RESILIENCE: THE EMERGENCE OF A PERSPECTIVE FOR SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ANALYSES (2006, background): “, 2000; Armitage, 2005; Ostrom, 2005) and social capital and conflict (Ostrom and Ahn, 2003; Adger, 2003; Pretty, 2003; Galaz, 2005).”
A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective (2004, methodology): “By social capital we mean the rules actually used by those governing, managing and using the system and those factors that reduce the transaction costs associated with the monitoring and enforcement of these rules (Ostrom and Ahn, 2003).”
Research, part of a Special Feature on A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems Applying the social-ecological system framework to the diagnosis of urban lake commons in Bangalore, India (2014, background): “Here, we define social capital following Ostrom and Ahn (2003) as based on three attributes that are critical for research on collective action, namely, trustworthiness, the existence of networks, and the existence of rules and norms that enhance the ability of individuals to solve…”
Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions (2014, background): “…interactions, social capital (and social networks) play an important role in the ability of an individual to manage risk and uncertainty, especially in the absence of help from the state, by facilitating collaboration and coordination among individual actors (Adger, 2003; Ostrom and Ahn, 2003).”
Dams and population displacement on China’s Upper Mekong River: Implications for social capital and social–ecological resilience (2016, background): “In agricultural or resource-dependent communities, social capital supports resilience (Ostrom and Ahn, 2003).”
Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance (2004, background): “Second, both vertical and horizontal communication can––if repeated over time, and if the group members value the potential future benefits from cooperation––lead to greater trust between participating actors (Lyon, 2000; Ostrom & Ahn, 2003; Petro, 2001; Putnam, 1993).”
The influence of social capital on environmental policy instruments (2009, background): “The concept of social capital was introduced in its current use in the field of social sciences in the 1960s (see Ostrom and Ahn 2003 ).”
Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis (2007, background): “Robert Putnam (2000; Putnam et al., 1993) has demonstrated the importance of networks in the creation of social capital that enables complex governance systems to evolve without all links being planned from the top (see also E. Ostrom and Ahn, 2003).”