Social Capital in Development Planning

Linking the Actors
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-57260-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3503 g

The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world. Social capital is an asset of their territorial communities. It is also a precondition for national and local policies that aim to better the economic base and quality of life for all. This change is socially diffused, economically sustainable over time, and smart in its content. A significant stock of social capital facilitates such results because it links into the process of development planning institutional decision makers and socioeconomic stakeholders who share trust, solidarity norms, and a community vision.

In the last thirty years, social capital has become a forceful concept in the social sciences, the subject of many scholarly works and a topic of keen interest and debate in policy circles. Yet the main focus has been on defining and measuring social capital, with little attention given to its value in promoting development policies.Social Capital in Development Planning updates and advances the debate on social capital through the analysis of the application of the concept of social capital to programs for sustainable and smart socioeconomic development; empirical findings; and a new paradigm for development planning.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holguin, Catalina

Nanetti, Raffaella Y.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Social Capital: Elements and Dimensions
3. The Feasibility of Constructing Social Capital
4. Development and Not Just Growth
5. The Path to Development Through Social Capital
6. Social Capital in Neighborhood Development: Pianura, Naples
7. Social Capital in Educational Policy: Spain
8. Conclusions: Linking the Actors for Continuity and Sustainability

Über Autor(innen)

Raffaella Y. Nanetti is Professor Emerita of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, where she taught courses in international and community development. She is Senior Researcher at Esoc-Lab, London and Associate at the National Research Council, Italy. She has directed community projects in the Balkans, Europe, and the USA, and has published extensively.
 
Catalina Holguin is Associate Researcher at the Economic and Social Cohesion Laboratory, UK. She has a PhD in Social Capital and Education Policy from the London School of Economics, UK. She has experience in European research projects on social capital, social cohesion, EU policies, and multilevel governance. Holguin is currently working on social capital and development in post-conflict societies.