Public Participation and Social Capital： Case Study of Pocket Park in Chyuan-Tsuon community,Shenkang Township, Changhua County
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Lin, Ya-Chen
Abstract
The issues of how human society can be persistently developed have been widely discussed in recent years. “Agenda 21” announced by United Nations in 1992 and Nation Wealth Index published by World Bank in 1995 both regard social capital as one of the most crucial policies for sustainable development. Social capital, in terms of practical applications in community research, refers to connections formed by community members who choose to involve in certain participant mechanisms to solve their problems facing in common and then consequently to move towards the goal of sustainable development. Social capital, therefore in the study, is regared as a aggregative resource which are able to prompt group members to take part in community work, and then to accumulate more resources through the whole process of public participation. The study area in this research is Chyuan-Tsuon Community in Shenkang Township, Changhua County, which is a rural community. In this community, members have developed a very close social network and established the consensus in environment protection by actively engaging in the process constructing of Pocket Park. The study has investigated how social relationship among the members has been built up and what has been changed by examining operation patterns of the Pocket Park in Chyuan-Tsuon Community, and has further observed the generation, accumulation and changes of social capital by analyzing production, maintenance and use of the project construction. The research findings indicate that members participating in the project of the Pocket Park can actually enforce their sense of recognition, strengthen social relationship and, moreover, enrich social capital, which are very much helpful to approach to the goal of sustainable community.
Subjects
Public Participation
Social Capital
Social Network
Pocket Park
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-97-R94228021-1.pdf
Size
23.53 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):0df4fc0104a994467c0519a6d3301535