RT Journal Article
T1 Building ties: social capital network analysis of a forest community in a biosphere reserve in Chiapas, Mexico
T2 Construyendo vínculos: análisis de la red de capital social de una comunidad forestal en una reserva de la biosfera en Chiapas, México
A1 Rico García Amado, Luis
A1 Ruiz Pérez, Manuel
A1 Iniesta Arandia, Irene
A1 Dahringer, Guillaume
A1 Reyes, Felipe
A1 Barrasa García, Sara
AB Governance of the commons depends on the capacity to generate collective action. Networks and rules that foster that collective action have been defined as social capital. However, their causal link is still not fully understood. We use social network analysis to assess social capital, decision-making, and collective action in a forest-based common pool resource management in La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve (Chiapas, Mexico). Our research analyzes the productive networks and the evolution of coffee groups in one community. The network shows some centrality, with richer landholders tending to occupy core positions and poorer landless peasants occupying peripheral ones. This has fostered the community’s environmentally oriented development but has also caused internal conflicts. Market requirements have shaped different but complementary productive networks, where organic coffee commercialization is the main source of bridging ties, which has resulted in more connectivity and resilience. Conservation attitudes, along with the institutional setting of the community, have promoted collective action. The unresolved conflicts, however, still leave some concerns about governance in the future.
PB The Resilience Alliance
SN 1708-3087
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95675
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95675
LA eng
NO Rico García-Amado, Luis, Manuel Ruiz Pérez, Irene Iniesta-Arandia, Guillaume Dahringer, Felipe Reyes, y Sara Barrasa. «Building Ties: Social Capital Network Analysis of a Forest Community in a Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas, Mexico». Ecology and Society 17, n.o 3 (2012): art3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04855-170303.
NO Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
DS Docta Complutense
RD 4 abr 2025