Social Capital Dimensions: A Proposition for Territorial Development

Abstract

This study proposes an instrument to evaluate territorial social capital as a collective resource, found in the cooperation, trust and reciprocity relations. The evaluation of the territorial social capital was done in three neighboring areas in southern Brazil. These territories have common cultural aspects, although they have experienced different patterns of development. The results show that the territorial social capital can be analyzed according to four factors in this order: proximity, territorial anchorage, reciprocity and collective memory. The proximity and the territorial anchorage are the most powerful factors to explain social capital in these territories.

Dificultades y futuros del Desarrollo Territorial. Una reflexión desde el caso Andino en Ecuador

“…Una de las estrategias fundamentales, para enfrentar las transformaciones y retos ligados al proyecto de Desarrollo Territorial, consiste en movilizar las dos grandes categorías de proximidades (geográfica o relacional), con el fin de generar la emergencia de la proximidad territorial, determinante tanto en la consecución de procesos sostenibles de gobernanza (Torre y beuret, 2012, p. 15) como en el fortalecimiento del capital social territorial (Sarate, Macke y Pecqueur, 2020).…”