Social capital and rural development in the knowledge society [electronic resource] / edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi.
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Westlund, Hans (författare)
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Kobayashi, Kiyoshi. (författare)
- ISBN 9781782540601
- Publicerad: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013
- Engelska 1 online resource (352 p.)
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Serie: New Horizons in Regional Science Series
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- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. Social capital and sustainable urban-rural relationships in the global knowledge society; PART I Needs and problems of building social capital; 2. Forest governance and social capital: structures and functions; 3. Joint facilities, improvement districts, clubs and commons: towards a taxonomy of institutionalised social capital; 4. Foundations of collective action: towards a general theory; PART II Analyses of effects of social capital; 5. Does social capital contribute to regional economic growth? Swedish experiences.
- 6. Changes in social capital and community functions in depopulated areas from case studies of 12 communities in the San'in district7. Social capital in rural Poland: between tradition and social engineering; 8. Social capital and economic growth in China's provinces; PART III Problems of local development and rural policies; 9. Social capital and place-based policy: Aboriginal communities in Canada; 10. What can local policies do? An activity theory analysis of municipal support to local innovations.
- 11. Local responses to structural changes: collective action for rural communities in Sweden12. Collective actors as driving forces for mobilizing social capital in a local community: what can be learned for health promotion?; 13. Social capital for sustainable rural regions: the roles of voluntary association-mediated public service; Index.
- Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas' survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth - an era in which urban is the norm and where rural areas must adapt to this new situation and build innovative urban-rural relations. The traditional division between 'rural' and 'urban' is no longer valid in the knowledge society. Instead of being a homogeneous unit based on primary sector production, the countryside in the developed world increasingly consists of areas with very different deve
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- Socialt kapital (sao)
- Landsbygdsutveckling (sao)
- Economic development -- Social aspects.
- Rural development.
- Social capital (Sociology).
- Rural development (LCSH)
- Social capital (Sociology) (LCSH)
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- Electronic books. (LCSH)
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- HM708 .W384 2013 (LCC)
- 307.1412 (DDC)
- Odgd (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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