The Problem With Trust: Insights from Advisory Committees in the Forest Sector of Alberta

Parkins, John R.

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“…In many studies, trust building has been considered to be a major added value of twoway communication, when compared to one-way communication (Höppner et al, 2012;Parker et al, 2007;Laurian, 2009). Recent studies, however, have highlighted the limitations of trust building through participatory processes (Höppner et al, 2007;Buchecker et al, 2010;Poortinga and Pidgeon, 2003) or even questioned the desirability of trust building for social capacity building (Terpstra et al, 2009) and, more generally, for democratic processes (Poortinga and Pidgeon, 2004;Parkins, 2010). They suggest that critical trust in the institutions, which includes a certain scepticism towards the motivations and also the competences of the authorities, rather than general trust, will increase the active role of the stakeholders in hazard management.…”

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How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

Buchecker

Menzel

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2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Recent literature suggests that dialogic forms of risk communication are more effective to build stakeholders' hazard-related social capacities. In spite of the high theoretical expectations, there is a lack of univocal empirical evidence on the relevance of these effects. This is mainly due to the methodological limitations of the existing evaluation approaches. In our paper we aim at eliciting the contribution of participatory river revitalisation projects on stakeholders' social capacity building by triangulating the findings of three evaluation studies that were based on different approaches: a field-experimental, a qualitative long-term ex-post and a cross-sectional household survey approach. The results revealed that social learning and avoiding the loss of trust were more relevant benefits of participatory flood management than acceptance building. The results suggest that stakeholder involvements should be more explicitly designed as tools for long-term social learning

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How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

Buchecker

Menzel

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2013

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“…Hence, through participatory stakeholder involvement, participants can be challenged by others more profoundly than in semi-structured interviews. On the other hand, in participatory stakeholder involvement there is a tendency to avoid conflicts, in particular in cases where there is a certain familiarity and interdependence among the stakeholders (Parkins, 2010). Another shortcoming might be the limited number of participants that can be involved in participatory processes, and the limited availability of participants during the process that may have implications on the outcomes.…”

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“…It is based on coupling two possible ways of communicating with stakeholders: interviews or surveys, and participation. Both have their strengths and weaknesses (Fiorino, 1990;Buchecker et al, 2010;Parkins, 2010), but we argue that combining the two allows the reduction of biases in the assessment.…”

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The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Buchecker

Salvini

Baldassarre

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Abstract.Over the last few decades, Europe has suffered from a number of severe flood events and, as a result, there has been a growing interest in probing alternative approaches to managing flood risk via prevention measures. A literature review reveals that, although in the last decades risk evaluation has been recognized as key element of risk management, and risk assessment methodologies (including risk analysis and evaluation) have been improved by including social, economic, cultural, historical and political conditions, the theoretical schemes are not yet applied in practice. One main reason for this shortcoming is that risk perception literature is mainly of universal and theoretical nature and cannot provide the necessary details to implement a comprehensive risk evaluation. This paper therefore aims to explore a procedure that allows the inclusion of stakeholders' perceptions of prevention measures in risk assessment. It proposes to adopt methods of risk communication (both one-way and two-way communication) in risk assessment with the final aim of making flood risk management more effective. The proposed procedure not only focuses on the effect of discursive risk communication on risk perception, and on achieving a shared assessment of the prevention alternatives, but also considers the effects of the communication process on perceived uncertainties, accepted risk levels, and trust in the managing institutions.The effectiveness of this combined procedure has been studied and illustrated using the example of the participatory flood prevention assessment process on the Sihl River in Zurich, Switzerland. The main findings of the case study suggest that the proposed procedure performed well, but that it needs some adaptations for it to be applicable in different contexts and to allow a (semi-) quantitative estimation of risk perception to be used as an indicator of adaptive capacity.

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“…Trettin and Musham (2000, p. 412), for example, claim that "trust may no longer be possible or desirable and quite possibly is not a realistic goal" within the context of environmental risk communication. Equally, this critical perspective on trust is taken up within a resource management context (Parkins, 2010) where high levels of interpersonal trust are found to be entirely unhelpful in fostering small group citizen engagement. Similarly, Smith et al (2013a, p. 16) discovered that "individuals who easily trust others were less likely to be involved in resource-related management actions."…”

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Trust and Skepticism in Dynamic Tension: Concepts and Empirical Refinements From Research on the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in Alberta, Canada

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2015

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The Problem With Trust: Insights from Advisory Committees in the Forest Sector of Alberta

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Trust and Skepticism in Dynamic Tension: Concepts and Empirical Refinements From Research on the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in Alberta, Canada

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