Role of social capital in local knowledge evolution and transfer in a network of rural communities coping with landslide disasters in Sri Lanka

Dasanayaka, Uditha; Matsuda, Yoko

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102630

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“…The lack of trust and hierarchical social relations between generations in the villages turn into a barrier for active and inclusive community participation [103,104]. In the Maha Ambogama project, social and ideological divisions between the youth and adults can be observed.…”

Section: Dry Zone Sri Lankamentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers in Participative Water Governance: A Critical Analysis of Community Development Approaches

Shunglu¹,

Köpke

Kanoi

et al. 2022

Water

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Participatory approaches within development programs involving common-pool resources are intended to revive a community’s role in managing these resources. Certainly, to ensure the successful and equitable use of such resources, community participation is essential. However, in many cases, attempts at applying a participatory approach often fail to genuinely engage all subgroups within a community due to assumptions of homogeneity and a lack of understanding of the deep socio-political divisions between people. As a result, development programs can be plagued by these pre-existing power relations, potentially resulting in tokenistic community participation and the continuation of elite capture of natural resources to the same extent or worse than before a development program has begun. This in turn can negatively impact good governance and the fair distribution of a common pool resource. This paper explores the use of participatory approaches in water projects, assessing to what degree power relationships impact water management programs. Using a qualitative approach, the paper identifies key challenges of participatory water governance through case studies from Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka, exploring: lack of social trust, elite capture of participatory processes, power heterogeneity and imbalances at the micro-level, and a lack of inclusive participation in decision-making. Based on the analysis of these case studies, this paper argues that it is essential for participatory development interventions to understand socio-political power relations within a community—an inherently complex and contested space. The so-called “exist-strategies” of a community project play a key role to decide the project sustainability that grants the “community ownership” of the project. Such an understanding can bring about greater success in development interventions attempting to address water-related issues.

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Section: Dry Zone Sri Lankamentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers in Participative Water Governance: A Critical Analysis of Community Development Approaches

Shunglu¹,

Köpke

Kanoi

et al. 2022

Water

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“…According to other research, cooperatives play a key role in bringing knowledge closer to farmers located in isolated territories and who usually cannot satisfy the need for access to new knowledge and new market opportunities [72]. Therefore, these actors play a key role in the transfer of knowledge and the best approach to transfer new information is through Land 2022, 11, 63 8 of 13 the dominant group or actors in the network so that this group will capture the information and transmit the knowledge acquired through knowledge sharing [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Knowledge transfer (KT) is therefore the part of the knowledge diffusion process that comprises the intentional activities of transferring explicit knowledge from place, person, or ownership to another [23,24]. Knowledge diffusion, and hence KT, is a social phenomenon in which people participate as potential generators, transmitters and adopters [15,23], which leads to defining KT as a network activity [23,25]. The process of knowledge diffusion is driven, firstly, by the social links between knowledge sender and receiver agents and, secondly, by the individual attributes of these agents themselves [15,26].…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge Transfer on Digital Transformation: An Analysis of the Olive Landscape in Andalusia, Spain

Reina-Usuga

Parra-López

Carmona-Torres

2022

Land

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The global economy, and agriculture, in particular, faces significant challenges and transformation pressures. A major challenge, and opportunity, is the transformation towards digital agriculture or agriculture 4.0, where knowledge transfer (KT) has an important role to play not only in ensuring that digital innovations reach end-users, but also that these innovations contribute to development in rural landscapes. This paper analyses the role of KT in the framework of digital transformation (DT) in the Andalusian olive landscape. Thus, from the perspective of knowledge-generating agents, the main knowledge emitting and receiving actors in the DT are identified by using Social Network Analysis techniques (SNA). Subsequently, the performance of the Technological Innovation System (TIS) in KT is evaluated by using the multi-criteria Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The results suggest that the knowledge-generating agents, the knowledge transfer actors, and the scientific and dissemination media actors are the main knowledge emitters and highlight their role as cohesive actors of the social network. The main knowledge receivers are olive growers, cooperatives and non-cooperative groups. The results also indicate that the global performance of the TIS in the KT function is medium/low. Furthermore, in the KT sub-functions where the TIS in DT performs best is the quality of the transfer processes of DT, and where it performs worst is the sufficiency of spaces for KT.

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“…Cultural consensus analysis is a valuable tool for verifying intracultural difference and agreement patterns in specific areas or domains of knowledge (U. Dasanayaka & Matsuda 2022;Gatewood 2012;Johnson & Griffith 2010;Tokamachi central government office 2005). Cultural consensus theory pursuits cultural truths not in individual responses, although the degree of sharing of these responses by accepting informants' given answers is probabilistic rather than fundamentally true.…”

Section: Cultural Consensus Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, there is no proper research based on the consensus of local understandings in disaster management by applying cultural consensus analysis (U. Dasanayaka & Matsuda 2022;Morris et al 2010). Therefore, the study described in this paper was focused on uncovering local knowledge through fieldwork with local cultural informants (participants) and relating cultural consensus theory to examine the field data and produce a clear, consistent consensus-based model using cultural consensus analysis for a geologically and culturally important regions of Matsunoyama, Japan.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consensus of Local Knowledge on landslide Hazard in Depopulated Mountain Communities in Japan – A Case Study on Matsunoyama Village

Dasanayaka

Matsuda

2022

IDRiM Journal

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Rural depopulation in mountain communities is now well acknowledged as one of the salient challenges faced by Japan which made them more susceptible to landslide disasters with intense weather conditions. The degradation of the traditional culture due to the rapid depopulation in mountainous areas leads to the permanent disappearance of the best local knowledge for landslide disasters. This study attempts to investigate the community’s landslide hazard knowledge. The research applied structural questionnaires and informal interviews for data collection. Firstly, the analysis has been conducted for identifying the main components in local knowledge on landslide disasters. Based on the component’s results, the questionnaire was developed to measure awareness on those components within the community. Finally, the cultural consensus modelling was utilized in discovering the cultural truths not in individual responses but the degree of sharing of these responses. The research outcomes suggest how the local knowledge-based practices and the consensus of local knowledge had improved the level of disaster adaptation among the community members. Moreover, the findings revealed the impact of depopulation and aging on the sustainability of the mountain community in a landslide disaster environment.

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Role of social capital in local knowledge evolution and transfer in a network of rural communities coping with landslide disasters in Sri Lanka

Cited by 26 publications

References 51 publications

Barriers in Participative Water Governance: A Critical Analysis of Community Development Approaches

Barriers in Participative Water Governance: A Critical Analysis of Community Development Approaches

Knowledge Transfer on Digital Transformation: An Analysis of the Olive Landscape in Andalusia, Spain

Consensus of Local Knowledge on landslide Hazard in Depopulated Mountain Communities in Japan – A Case Study on Matsunoyama Village

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