Commoning toward urban resilience: The role of trust, social cohesion, and involvement in a simulated urban commons setting

Arthur Feinberg*, Amineh Ghorbani, Paulien M. Herder

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the potential of urban commons for building community resilience. We focus on the issue of adaptability to socio-ecological issues, which depends on the social capital built by the local community of practice. We measure this capital through the variables of volunteer involvement, perceived trust, and social cohesion in an agent-based model, which simulates the dynamics of participation in collective activities. We anchor our model with the case of KasKantine in Amsterdam, a cooperative and restaurant run by volunteers. Our model shows that both trust and social cohesion emerge from the interactions in the cooperative, especially when group sizes are kept small. This contributes to the adaptability of such social-ecological systems, helping their communities build social resilience.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)142-167
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Urban Affairs
Volume45
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would like to express our gratitude to our anonymous reviewers, who, thanks to their endeavor for clarity and quality, enabled us to make our work public and thus contribute to the growing empirical literature on the urban commons.

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© 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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