TY - JOUR
T1 - Building community resilience in a context of climate change
T2 - The role of social capital
AU - Carmen, Esther
AU - Fazey, Ioan
AU - Ross, Helen
AU - Bedinger, Melissa
AU - Smith, Fiona M
AU - Prager, Katrin
AU - McClymont, Kerri
AU - Morrison, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the UK Research and INNOVATION Economic and Social Research Council award number ES/J500136/1.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 studies examines conceptual and empirical understandings of how social capital relates to resilience, identifying implications for community resilience and climate change practice. Different conceptualisations are highlighted, yet also limited focus on underlying dimensions of social capital and proactive types of resilience for engaging with the complex climate change challenge. Empirical insights show that structural and socio-cultural aspects of social capital, multiple other factors and formal actors are all important for shaping the role of social capital for guiding resilience outcomes. Thus, finding ways to work with these different elements is important. Greater attention on how and why outcomes emerge, interactions between factors, approaches of formal actors and different socio-cultural dimensions will advance understandings about how to nurture social capital for resilience in the context of climate change.
AB - Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 studies examines conceptual and empirical understandings of how social capital relates to resilience, identifying implications for community resilience and climate change practice. Different conceptualisations are highlighted, yet also limited focus on underlying dimensions of social capital and proactive types of resilience for engaging with the complex climate change challenge. Empirical insights show that structural and socio-cultural aspects of social capital, multiple other factors and formal actors are all important for shaping the role of social capital for guiding resilience outcomes. Thus, finding ways to work with these different elements is important. Greater attention on how and why outcomes emerge, interactions between factors, approaches of formal actors and different socio-cultural dimensions will advance understandings about how to nurture social capital for resilience in the context of climate change.
KW - Climate change
KW - Community resilience building
KW - Social capital
KW - Socio-cultural factors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121366384&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s13280-021-01678-9
DO - 10.1007/s13280-021-01678-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35015248
SN - 0044-7447
VL - 51
SP - 1371
EP - 1387
JO - Ambio
JF - Ambio
IS - 6
ER -
