ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors look into the various ideas associated with social capital, and the main results of the literature on social capital in detail. While this approach to social capital is narrow, the people argue that it captures the central aspects for the development of a simple analytical framework for the assessment of the social capacity to implement GHG emission-reduction projects. For the analytical framework of the chapter, the authors adopt the distinction between complementarity and substitution and a prevalence of respectively bonding and bridging social capital. The framework is applied to the analysis of GHG emission-reduction options later in this chapter, where each of the quadrants will be elaborated on in turn, synthesizing the discussion of the chapter. The chapter has also argued that the conventional approach to barriers and barrier removal suffers from a weakness because it does not facilitate an assessment of whether the barriers are interrelated and rooted in the social organization of society.
