Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
Environ Manage. 2012 Mar;49(3):663-74. doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9800-7. Epub 2012 Jan 1.
Building trust between resource users and natural resource institutions is essential when creating conservation policies that rely on stakeholders to be effective. Trust can enable the public and agencies to engage in cooperative behaviors toward shared goals and address shared problems. Despite the increasing attention that trust has received recently in the environmental management literature, the influence that individual cognitive and behavioral factors may play in influencing levels of trust in resource management institutions, and their associated scientific assessments, remains unclear. This paper uses the case of fisheries management in the northeast to explore the relationships between an individual's knowledge of the resource, perceptions of resource health, and participatory experience on levels of trust. Using survey data collected from 244 avid recreational anglers in the Northeast U.S., we test these relationships using structural equation modeling. Results indicate that participation in fisheries management is associated with increased trust across all aspects of fisheries management. In addition, higher ratings of resource health by anglers are associated with higher levels of trust of state and regional institutions, but not federal institutions or scientific methods.
在制定依赖利益相关者才能有效的保护政策时，在资源使用者和自然资源机构之间建立信任至关重要。信任可以使公众和机构能够为共同目标进行合作，并解决共同的问题。尽管信任在最近的环境管理文献中受到越来越多的关注，但个人认知和行为因素对资源管理机构信任水平及其相关科学评估的影响仍不清楚。本文以东北部渔业管理为例，探讨了个人对资源的了解、对资源健康状况的看法以及参与经验与信任水平之间的关系。我们使用美国东北部 244 名热心的娱乐性钓鱼者收集的调查数据，使用结构方程模型检验了这些关系。结果表明，参与渔业管理与对渔业管理各个方面的信任度增加有关。此外，钓鱼者对资源健康状况的评价越高，他们对州和地区机构的信任度越高，但对联邦机构或科学方法的信任度则不然。
