Co-management requires two or more organizations that collectively manage natural capital. This study aimed to explore the function of social capital in the cycle of establishing co-management in southeastern Iranian rural communities (who participated in the Rehabilitation of Forest Landscapes and Degraded Land (RFLDL) project). Since measuring social capital is important and difficult, and one of the most promising and accurate methods for evaluating this capital is Social Network Analysis (SNA), it has been used as a research method in this research. The results showed an increase in the observed network characteristics of the RFLDL data, which indicates the positive effect of the social mobilization in RFLDL on bonding social capital. In addition, it suggested that the assessment of the success of community based natural resource governance solely based on a relational perspective of social capital is too narrow. Especially, traditional forms of community organization are not taken into account explicitly. Therefore, more research needs to be undertaken on how to incorporate differences in cultural organizations, traditional knowledge, and practices into the perspective of community empowerment.

共同管理需要两个或更多组织共同管理自然资本。本研究旨在探讨社会资本在伊朗东南部农村社区（参与森林景观和退化土地恢复（RFLDL）项目）建立共同管理周期中的作用。由于衡量社会资本既重要又困难，而评估这种资本的最有前途和最准确的方法之一是社会网络分析（SNA），因此它已被用作本研究的研究方法。结果表明，RFLDL 数据观察到的网络特征增加，这表明 RFLDL 中的社会动员对结合社会资本的积极影响。此外，它表明，仅基于社会资本的关系视角对基于社区的自然资源治理的成功进行评估过于狭隘。特别是，没有明确考虑传统的社区组织形式。因此，如何将文化组织、传统知识和实践的差异纳入社区赋权的视角，需要进行更多的研究。