Capital Type | Specific criteria | Preferred Indicator | Evidence and availability of indicator (or close proxy) | Methods required for assessment | Social/spatial/temporal scale of assessment | Relevance of measure |
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(A) Social
Social criteria should relate back to social capital. Social capital refers to networks and/or trust and new institutional formation and inter alia, we might wish to think about bridging and bonding capital | Extent of crofting community volunteer involvement in buy out associated activity. | Total No. of volunteers
No of volunteer days committed
By activity
By sector of community | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting communities. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates extent of crofting community participation in buy out process. |
Stakeholder representation/ participation in key decisions | % turnout in CCRTB vote
% turnout at public meetings
% turnout in community ballot for trust
Composition of trust | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of community ballots, meetings and sharing of responsibilities. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates the extent of participation and networking in on-going community processes. |
Availability of community information. | No.of new means of communication.
Frequency of updating.
% of community covered
% of community actively responding or feeding back. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of community information provision and sharing. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates increase in community level activity and openness of community processes. |
Community sense of self determination | % of community with increased sense of confidence in negotiating buy outs
% of community with increased capacity for self determination re land use | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of community | Community level, periodic. | Indicates shift in perceived balance of power and ability to undertake action, |
Balance of community involvement | Relative proportions of crofter/non crofter involvement | Crofting Trusts N/A, anecdotal. | Check records, survey of communities | Community level, periodic. | Indicates breadth of community engagement |
(B) Economic (financial)
Economic capital refers to the financial resources of the community. This might be explored in relation to the community as a whole, the land based community and at household or collective level. We might want to think about non-market but still economic values here | Confidence of crofting community based businesses about future | % of croft based businesses confident about future
% of other crofting community businesses confident about future | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of local businesses | Community level, periodic. | Indicates shift in economic expectations and confidence |
Funds leveraged against existing assets | Grant aid secured
Community assets committed
Loans secured | Crofting Trusts, N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of Crofting Trusts | Community level. | Indicates success in leveraging funding. |
Funds leveraged against potential assets/revenue streams | Grant aid secured
Community assets committed
Loans secured | Crofting Trusts, N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of Crofting Trusts | Community level, periodic. | Indicates success in leveraging funding. |
Value of perceived future revenues | Proportion of buy outs which involve proposed wind farms.
Incidence of interposed lease implementation. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of Crofting Trusts local businesses and communities. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates effect of potential future revenue streams |
(C) Human
Human capital refers to the individual capacities and often is associated with education and training. | Skill base in asset ownership and management. | % of crofting trust or community managers with relevant training/experience. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives or community managers. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates (weakly) internal competence of community management. |
Skill base in community politics and internal conflict resolution. | % of crofting trust or community managers with relevant training/experience. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives or community managers. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates (weakly) internal competence of community management. |
Confidence in one-to-one negotiation with landlords. | Perceived balance of power/competence in dealing with landlords. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates crofting community confidence/trust in approaching third parties. |
Positive interactions with landlords. | % positive interactions as % of total. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives, landlords etc. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates nature of relationship between crofting communities and landlords. |
Confidence in one-to-one negotiation government agencies, NGOs etc. | Perceived balance of power/competence in dealing with government agencies, NGOs etc. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates crofting community confidence/trust in approaching third parties. |
Positive interactions with government agencies, NGOs etc. | % positive interactions as % of total. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives, NGOs etc. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates nature of relationship between crofting communities and regulators, funding bodies etc. |
Capacity to work on a collaborative basis | Trust membership
Other organisational involvement | Crofting trust, N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting trust representatives and communities | Community level, periodic. | Indicates capacity of community to work together |
(D) Environmental
Environmental capital is the natural capital embodied in forests, soils, land etc. it will include non-market goods such as biodiversity as well as forms of natural capital which allow profitable resource management. (We need to avoid double counting with Economic capital) | Designated nature conservation sites on crofting land | % of area of crofting land covered by national nature conservation designations | Readily assessed but possibly not available at present | GIS-based survey | All crofting area | Illustrates extent to which crofting is associated with nature conservation designations |
( E) Physical
Physical capital refers the man-made physical infrastructure | Common property physical infrastructure on crfting ground | Common property investments within crofted area | NA Survey needed | Survey | Crofting community | Illustrates community investment |
(F) Cultural (symbolic ) | Perceived value of crofting community ownership as an end in itself. | Non-market values of achieving ownership/control. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting communities. | Crofting community level, periodic. | Offers insights into importance attached to local control and self-determination. |
Crofting community pride and self-esteem. | Self-perceptions of enhanced community cohesion & confidence. | N/A, anecdotal. | Survey of crofting communities. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates community pride and self-esteem arising from ownership. |
(G) Institutions & processes | Extent of crofting community interest in ownership of land. | No. of CCRtB registrations formally noted. | Scottish Government Rural Directorate Crofting Branch. | Record check. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates direct interest in CCRtB. |
New institutional formation relating to the land | No. of new Crofting Trusts formed. | Scottish Government Rural Directorate Crofting Branch. | Record check, possible additional surveys of communities. | Community level, periodic. | Indicates crofting community interest in ownership of land. |
Influence in driving negotiated settlement | No. of formal applications resolved through negotiation
Proportion of applications completing legislative formal buyout process. | N/A, anecdotal. | Crofting community survey | Community level, | Indicates the extent of leveraged effect |