A Dynamic Balance

Foreword / Richard A. Skinner

Introduction / Jenny Onyx

Part 1: Vision

1. Social Capital and Sustainable Community Development: Is There aRelationship? / Ann Dale

Part 2: Connections

2. Ecological and Social Systems: Essential System Conditions /Vivienne Wilson

3. Social Ecology as a Framework for Understanding and Working withSocial Capital and Sustainability within Rural Communities / StuartB. Hill

Part 3: Actions

4. Enabling Structures for Coordinated Action: CommunityOrganizations, Social Capital, and Rural Community Sustainability /Jo Barraket

5. Negotiating Interorganizational Domains: The Politics of Social,Natural, and Symbolic Capital / Suzanne Benn and JennyOnyx

6. Modelling Social Capital in a Remote Australian IndigenousCommunity / Paul Memmott and Anne Meltzer

7. Stones: Social Capital in Canadian Aboriginal Communities /Lesley Moody and Isabel Cordua-von Specht

8. Communities of Practice for Building Social Capital in RuralAustralia: A Case Study of ExecutiveLink / Sue Kilpatrick and FrankVanclay

9. Social Capital and the Sustainability of Rural or RemoteCommunities: Evidence from the Australian Community Survey / AlanBlack and Philip Hughes

10. Social Capital and Sustainable Development: The Case of BrokenHill / Jenny Onyx and Lynelle Osburn

11. Social Capital Mobilization for Ecosystem Conservation /Jennie Sparkes

12. Values, Social Acceptability, and Social Capital: The CanadianNuclear Waste Disposal Case / Grant Sheng

13. The Challenges of Traditional Models of Governance in theCreation of Social Capital / Tony Boydell

Part 4: Assessing Progress

14. Exciting the Collective Imagination / James Tansey

Conclusion: Reflections / Ann Dale

Contributors

Index