Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: social capital

  • Four urban conditions of vibrant city life and reflection on megaprojects

    Assuming the bellow showed Jacobs´ urban conditions of vibrant city life and that urban megraprojects tend to make urban spaces more homogenous due to the concentration of a particular service or user profile, do megaprojects kill vibrant city life in a long term? Jacobs argues that vibrant activity can only flourish in cities when the physical…

  • Rational choice and spatial based solidarity problems

    “Strategies that are rational at the level of the individual can lead to unintended consequences or suboptimal outcomes at group or society level, thereby creating solidarity and inequality problems” Source @socioloxia This is The general definition of #marketfailure . Fascinating topic — Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics (@UrbanDemog) January 21, 2016   @UrbDemogrphics…

  • “The role of trust in restoration success: public engagement and temporal and spatial scale in a complex social-ecological system”

    Abstract The social dimensions of river restoration are not well understood especially in the context of large-scale restoration projects embedded in a complex social-ecological system. This study used in-depth interviews with diverse stakeholders to examine perceptions of restoration success on the Clark Fork River Superfund project in Western Montana. Trust emerged as critical to restoration…

  • Social capital and development

    See bellow a draft/notes I took before my seminar on social capital and development at Gdansk University of Technology: We have a tendency to think that urban planning, development are one thing and politics another thing. Here, in Spain, and in the whole Europe. Why politics matters. Let´s see how traditional societies worked. I mean…

  • Desarrollo y capital social. ¿Por qué algunas regiones no prosperan?. Parte II.

    Pego aquí íntegro el artículo de Jorge Armesto titulado “Así nos roban: técnicas de saqueo municipal”. Sin duda, una forma de explicar cómo la falta de capital social entendida como la ausencia de normas y valores comunes, es hoy el principal problema de desarrollo local en muchos pueblos. Su realismo y su análisis del funcionamiento…

  • An extraordinary example of social capital and human cooperation capacity [video]

    Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust memorial day in Israel. On this day, a single siren is sounded throughout the entire country of Israel. During the siren, everything, everywhere in the country stops. An extraordinary example of how high reserves of social capital, understood as the existence of shared common values and beliefes in a given society,…

  • [Video lecture] Post industrial Dynamics and Urban Housing by Hugo Priemus

  • “The Strength of Weak Ties” by Granovetter’s

    Granovetter’s paper “The Strength of Weak Ties” is a highly influential research, with about 30,000 citations according to Google Scholar (by October 2014). In 1969 Granovetter submitted it to American Sociological Review, but it was rejected. One of the reviewers stated: “…it should not be published. I respectfully submit the following among an endless series…

  • Dimensiones del capital social y algunas reflexiones sobre emprendedores y democracia

    Lo cierto es que he leído bastante sobre el concepto de capital social. Desde los clásicos hasta autores más recientes. Una de las conclusiones a las que creo que llegaría cualquiera después de haber leído abundante literatura sobre el tema es que se trata de un concepto, a todas luces, complejo y difícil de operacionalizar para…