Browsing by UP Author "Davenport, Megan"

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Application of exploratory factor analysis to address the challenge of measuring social capital in a rural communal setting in South Africa

Davenport, Megan; Hassan, Rashid M. (Routledge, 2020)

Social capital (SC) is an umbrella concept combining attributes of multiple latent factors that are not directly observable, making it difficult to measure and express as a single variable. Despite its multidimensional ...
Combining theory and wisdom in pragmatic, scenario-based decision support for sustainable development

Davenport, Megan; Delport, Marion; Blignaut, James Nelson; Hichert, Tanja; Van der Burgh, Gerhard (Routledge, 2019)

Researchers have increasingly acknowledged the relative strength of ‘hybrid’ approaches to scenario analysis for exploring the futures of coupled human-nature systems. In this paper, we explain, demonstrate, and provisionally ...
Social capital and self-organised collective action : lessons and insights from a South African community project

Davenport, Megan; Hassan, Rashid M. (Routledge, 2020)

Through the lens of new institutional economics, this paper provides exploratory analysis of the elements of social capital behind the success of self-organised collective action in a longstanding and effective community-based ...

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