The Case for Grassroots Coll aboration: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level

摘要

The Case for Grassroots Collaboration: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level is a theoretical analysis of a common environmental trope: a community comes together to save beloved habitat. In the authors' view, grassroots efforts succeed in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay due to community involvement and commitment to place. Cooperatives have long been observed among neighbors, and otherwise unlikely environmentalists resistant to the contamination of their own backyards. Grassroots Collaboration proposes that citizens' efforts in the Chesapeake are successful precisely because such change is taking place in their backyard.