Social Capital in Marine Management Collaborative Networks: Lessons learned in the Coral Triangle and the Philippines
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: There has been a recent proliferation of collaborative ecosystem management approaches that create interlinked individuals working together to address socio-ecological problems.In these collaborative networks, through cooperating toward shared goals, participants create and maintain relationships, build trust, and share knowledgethus generating forms of social capital.Social capital, goodwill fostered among connected individuals, is a crucial component of network success and facilitates collective action and social learning, while also helping members address problems they could not realize on their own.Despite the shift toward larger-scale and more collaborative marine management approaches, thus far there has been limited empirical examination of the importance of social capital in influencing the effectiveness of these efforts.Therefore, in this dissertation I explore the role of social capital and the links between social capital and network effectiveness in three collaborative marine management networks operating at various geographic scales: the Regional Exchange (REX) network of Southeast Asia and Melanesia's Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) This research was supported by a number of generous funders.I would like to thank the
Author: Diana Pietri
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2282051628