The Greening of Social Capital: An Examination of Land-Based Groups in Two Vermont Counties

Autor/inn/en	Savage, Andrew; Isham, Jonathan; Klyza, Chistopher McGrory
Titel	The Greening of Social Capital: An Examination of Land-Based Groups in Two Vermont Counties
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 70 (2005) 1, S.113-131 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Social Capital; Counties; Nonprofit Organizations; Rural Areas; Environment; Agriculture; Recreation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; Nonprofit-Organisation; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Umwelt; Landwirtschaft; Re-creation; Erholung
Abstract	By undertaking a census of all agricultural, outdoor recreational, and environmental groups (land-based groups) in two adjacent counties in Vermont, we demonstrate the dramatic increase of local environmental groups in the last 15 years. Building on the methodologies of Kempton et al. (2001), we first show that official lists of nonprofit groups from the Vermont Secretary of State, the Internal Revenue Service, and local grassroots directories significantly undercount local environmental groups. Second, we show that since the mid 1980s, the number and membership roles of local autonomous environmental groups have grown rapidly relative to all other types of local and nonlocal land-based groups in these counties. This article provides preliminary evidence of the recent "greening of social capital." (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10