Social Capital and Collective Action in Environmental Governance Revisited

Hiroe Ishihara () and Unai Pascual ()

No 38.2008, Environmental Economy and Policy Research Working Papers from University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economics

Abstract: Since the 1990s, a growing number of authors have argued that social capital has positive effects in creating collective action and achieving favourable economic/political outcomes. However, in this paper we argue that despite this plethora of social capital literature, the connection between social capital and collective action is far from clear. By drawing on to a pluralistic perspective, i.e. ecological economics, sociology and anthropology, and introducing two key concepts, common knowledge and symbolic power, we aim at unravelling the missing links between social capital and collective action for environmental governance. By introducing these two concepts we aim to recapture a recursive relationship between social structure and human agency and to regain the explanatory power of the concept of social capital.

Keywords: Social Capital; institutions; collective action; ‘common knowledge’; ‘symbolic power’; human agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008, Revised 2008
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