Mapping social capital across Wales (UK) using secondary data and spatial analysis.

ABSTRACT: Social capital, a powerful community resource based on trust, relationships, norms, culture, values, networks and belonging, could shape the acceptance, cooperation, and involvement of citizens towards new policies or interventions. In past, connections of social capital have been studied in relation to human health, wellbeing, social and economic development. More recently, social capital has been studied with respect to human resilience and adaptation to climate change. We argue that social capital could also play a vital role in our efforts to reduce carbon footprint through behaviour change, a shift on shared local renewable energy resources, and adoption of low carbon technologies. In Wales (UK) there is no national scale dataset, reflecting its social capital landscape, that could be

SUBMITTER: Irfan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9987399 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature