Evaluation of Social Development Editorial Introduction

Marsden, David; Oakley, Peter

doi:10.1093/cdj/26.4.257

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“…Wu (2008) revealed out that the inhabitants of a more developed region have its positive impacts. Marsden and Oakley (1998) described that the group cohesion or solidarity functions to handle the conflicts and tensions fairly is aligned to the process of development. Even children -driven social capital has positive effects on their academic achievements (Dufur et al 2013).…”

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“…Considering the structural social capital, the "group solidarity" was chosen as Coleman (1988) declares that the network 'closure' is based on robust interconnected social ties, Uphoff (2001) describes it as the roles, rules, precedents and procedures, while Marsden and Oakley (1998) indicated that the group solidarity is one of the potential variables, however, neglected sometimes, to measure the social capital. Capturing the concept of the relational/bonding social capital, 'trust' was selected the same as suggested by different scholars and researchers (Coleman 1988;Putnam 1993;Uzzi 1996;Snijders 1999).…”

Section: Measurement Of Social Capitalmentioning

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Identifying sources of social capital among the farmers of the rural Sindh province of Pakistan

Sheikh¹,

Redzuan²,

Samah³

et al. 2015

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Social capital is the spirit of social relations. While it contains social resources, and is interrelated with other forms of capitals, there are some delusions among the scholars over its generation. Th e study was conducted to identify the factors possibly involved in the fl uctuation of social capital, in which the structural social capital, bonding social capital and linking social capital of the water-user associations were measured, and it was linked to various socioeconomic, demographic and farm characteristics of farmers. Th e multiple linear regression analysis revealed that the social capital was significantly infl uenced by the canal water availability, age, the drainage system availability, land holding, the farming experience and the family size. Furthermore, the canal water availability was found the most dominant indicator in relation to social capital to make it dynamic, in the rural Sindh province of Pakistan.

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Identifying sources of social capital among the farmers of the rural Sindh province of Pakistan

Sheikh¹,

Redzuan²,

Samah³

et al. 2015

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…For example, attempts to include assessments of social processes by measuring the amount of time that scientists and ®eld workers spend in villages may re¯ect nothing useful regarding the nature of social interactions. As Thin (1998) notes, we need to move away from the measurement of outputs and to look instead at impacts, a shift which is hindered by the in¯exible structure of traditional monitoring processes (Marsden and Oakley, 1990;Thin, 1998). In ISNAR's critiques of traditional planning and evaluation processes, Goldsmith (1991) highlights problems in evaluating research capability to be`de®nitional, attributional and temporal' ( p. 13).…”

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“…Moris and Copestake, 1993) stress the value of systematic qualitative enquiry for assessing research capability and change. However, many note the diculty in developing qualitative tools and indicators and of presenting the analysis in a concise and usable way (Marsden and Oakley, 1990;Goldsmith, 1991;Marsden et al, 1994;Thin, 1998;Thin et al, 1998).…”

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An actor-oriented approach for strengthening research and development capabilities in natural resource systems

Biggs

Matsaert

1999

Public Admin. Dev.

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“…Ecology and Society 13(1): 15 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art15/ stakeholders in such planning and management processes has long been advocated as a mandatory step to achieve sustainability in development (Brinkerhoff and Garcia-Zamor 1986, Marsden and Oakley 1990, Cernea 1991. The demand from development and conservation agencies and international nongovernmental organizations for more participatory development keeps growing (World Bank 1996, Brinkerhoff 1997, Gonsalves et al 2005 while research emphasizes the development of new adaptive co-management concepts , Olsson et al 2004, Colfer 2005.…”

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Accounting for the Ecological Dimension in Participatory Research and Development: Lessons Learned from Indonesia and Madagascar

Laumonier¹,

Bourgeois²,

Pfund³

2008

E&S

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ABSTRACT. The lack of understanding on how to integrate ecological issues into so-called socialecological natural resource management hampers sustainability in tropical forest landscape management. We build upon a comparison of three cases that show inverse gradients of knowledge and perceptions of the environment and human pressure on natural resources. We discuss why the ecological dimension currently lags behind in the management of tropical forest landscapes and to what extent participatory development can enhance the fit among ecological, socio-cultural, and economic systems. For each case study, socio-cultural and anthropological aspects of society and indigenous knowledge of the environment, the distribution of natural resources, classification, and management are documented in parallel with biophysical studies. Our results confirm that the ecological dimension remains weakly addressed and difficult to integrate into development actions when dealing with tropical forested landscape management in developing countries. We discuss three issues to understand why this is so: the disdain for traditional ecological knowledge and practices, the antagonism between economy and ecology, and the mismatch between traditional and modern governance systems. Participatory development shows potential to enhance the fit among ecological, socio-cultural, and economic systems through two dimensions: the generation and sharing of information to understand trends and the generation of new coordination practices that allow stakeholders to voice environmental concerns. In the absence of a "champion," institutions, and financial resources, the expected outcomes remain on paper, even when changes are negotiated. Future research in natural resource management must emphasize better integration at the interface of ecology and governance. Finally, we identify three challenges: the design of operational tools to reconcile ecology with social and economic concerns, the creation of governance systems to institutionalize collaborative and integrated resource management, and the design of enabler organizations close to local communities.

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Evaluation of Social Development Editorial Introduction

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Identifying sources of social capital among the farmers of the rural Sindh province of Pakistan

Identifying sources of social capital among the farmers of the rural Sindh province of Pakistan

An actor-oriented approach for strengthening research and development capabilities in natural resource systems

Accounting for the Ecological Dimension in Participatory Research and Development: Lessons Learned from Indonesia and Madagascar

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