What's Trust Got to do With it? Lessons From Cross-Sectoral Research on Natural Resource Management in Australia and the US

Eric Lee Toman; Allan Lindsay Curtis; Bruce Shindler

doi:10.3389/fcomm.2020.527945

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What's Trust Got to do With it? Lessons From Cross-Sectoral Research on Natural Resource Management in Australia and the US

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What's Trust Got to do With it? Lessons From Cross-Sectoral Research on Natural Resource Management in Australia and the US

Eric Lee Toman, Allan Lindsay Curtis and Bruce Shindler

Frontiers in communication, Vol.5, 527945

29/01/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.527945

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trust

public involvement and engagement

natural resource management

conflict

stakeholder acceptability

Natural resource management (NRM) is conducted within a complex context. This is particularly true at the interface of public and private interests where policy and management actions are often closely scrutinized by stakeholders. In these settings, natural resource managers often seek to achieve multiple objectives including ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and the provision of recreation opportunities. While some objectives may be complementary, in many cases they involve tradeoffs that are contested by stakeholders. Substantial prior work has identified concepts related to trust as critical to the success of natural resource management particularly in cases of high complexity and uncertainty with high stakes for those involved. However, although regularly identified as a central variable of influence, trust appears to be conceptualized differently or entangled with related constructs across this prior research. Moreover, much of the research in NRM considers trust as an independent variable and considers the influence of trust on other variables of interest (e.g., acceptance of a particular management practices, willingness to adopt a best management practice). In this paper, we develop a conceptualization of trust drawing on different literature areas and consider how trust is related to constructs such as trustworthiness and confidence. We then consider trust in the context of natural resource management drawing on examples from the U.S. and Australia. We then consider implications of these findings for building trust in natural resource management.

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Title: What's Trust Got to do With it? Lessons From Cross-Sectoral Research on Natural Resource Management in Australia and the US
Creators: Eric Lee Toman - The Ohio State University
Allan Lindsay Curtis - Charles Sturt University
Bruce Shindler - Oregon State University
Publication Details: Frontiers in communication, Vol.5, 527945
Publisher: Frontiers Media Sa
Number of pages: 7
Identifiers: 991013125984702368
Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

What's Trust Got to do With it? Lessons From Cross-Sectoral Research on Natural Resource Management in Australia and the US

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