Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society (New Horizons in Regional Science series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782540598 ISBN 13: 9781782540595

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas' survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth - an era in which urban is the norm and where rural areas must adapt to this new situation and build innovative urban-rural relations.

The traditional division between 'rural' and 'urban' is no longer valid in the knowledge society. Instead of being a homogeneous unit based on primary sector production, the countryside in the developed world increasingly consists of areas with very different development paths. With examples from Europe, Asia and America, the book discusses building and renewal of rural social capital from both bottom-up and top-down perspectives, and from the standpoint of business, and both the public and private sectors.

Being the first book to treat social capital and rural development in the age of megacities and the knowledge economy, it will be of great benefit to academics interested in social capital research and rural development.

Contributors: L. Dahlgren, K. Eliasson, M. Emmelin, M. Eriksson, S. Fölster, A. Forsberg, A. Gasior-Niemiec, T. Hatori, K. Ito, H. Jeong, K. Kobayashi, Y. Li, D. Natcher, M.R. Olfert, G. Ray, C. Waldenström, L. Westin, H. Westlund, J. Zola

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Edited by Hans Westlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden and Institute for Developmental and Strategic Analysis, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Japan

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782540598
• ISBN 13: 9781782540595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Westlund Hans, Kobayashi Kiyoshi