Voogd Remko, Rudberg Peter M, de Vries Jasper R, Beunen Raoul, Espiritu Aileen Aseron, Methner Nadine, Larsen Rasmus Kløcker, Fedreheim Gunn Elin, Goes Sander, Kruger Elizabeth
Strategic communication Group, Wageningen University and Research, PO Box 8130 , 6700 EW, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI), Linnégatan 87D, 115 23 Stockholm, Sweden.
Water Res X. 2022 Jun 27;16:100147. doi: 10.1016/j.wroa.2022.100147. eCollection 2022 Aug 1.
Trust is generally considered to play a key enabling role in water governance. Despite this notion, there have been no systematic assessments examining the way in which the literature on water governance engages with 'trust'. Our article fills this gap by providing an overview of the way in which this literature has engaged with trust as a conceptual lens, analytical device and empirical phenomenon. Through an explorative systematic literature review of = 200, mainly peer-reviewed journal articles, our findings reveal that the knowledge base on the role of trust in water governance is fragmented, poorly conceptualized, and contextually dispersed. We also observe that the role of trust is often understudied, especially in the context of the global south and with regard to ethnic minorities and indigenous people as the subjects of trust. We recommend that future research should build on solid empirical evidence, diversify its foci, go beyond an instrumental approach to trust and rely on clear and transparent conceptualizations that acknowledge the context-specific and dynamic nature of trust relationships. The results of this review should serve to better systemize future research and to further the understanding on the role(s) of trust in varying contexts and related to different water governance issues.
信任通常被认为在水资源治理中发挥着关键的推动作用。尽管有这一观点，但尚未有系统的评估来审视水资源治理文献探讨“信任”的方式。我们的文章通过概述该文献将信任作为概念视角、分析工具和实证现象的探讨方式，填补了这一空白。通过对200篇主要为同行评审期刊文章的探索性系统文献综述，我们的研究结果表明，关于信任在水资源治理中作用的知识库是零散的、概念化不足且在不同背景下分散的。我们还观察到，信任的作用往往研究不足，尤其是在全球南方背景下以及将少数民族和原住民作为信任主体的情况下。我们建议未来的研究应以坚实的实证证据为基础，使研究重点多样化，超越对信任的工具性方法，并依赖清晰透明的概念化，承认信任关系的具体背景和动态性质。本综述的结果应有助于更好地系统化未来的研究，并进一步理解信任在不同背景下以及与不同水资源治理问题相关的作用。
