The Role of Trust in Sustainable Management of Land, Fish, and Wildlife Populations in the Arctic
Abstract
:1. Introduction
Research Aims and Objectives
- What characterizes the organizations or management agencies that are trusted or distrusted among the resource users?
- How does trust in organizations and management agencies vary depending on individual-level socioeconomic characteristics?
- How does the local context of regions and communities (i.e., histories, governance, sociocultural environments, etc.) result in different levels of trust between the trustor and the trustees?
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Interview Design and Methodology
2.2. Quota Sampling and Recruitment
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
Qualitative Analysis of Interview Data
4. Discussion
4.1. Trust and Characteristics of Organizations
4.2. Trust and Characteristics of Individual Resource Users
4.3. Context and Trust Relationships between the Trustor and the Trustees
4.4. Limitations of our Study
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Individual | Parameter | Yes | Partly | No | N | p-Value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Region | ||||||
Alaska | 72.0 | 18.6 | 9.4 | 435 | <0.0001 | |
Churchill | 22.8 | 12.7 | 64.6 | 158 | ||
Nunavut | 62.2 | 16.8 | 21.0 | 434 | ||
Education | ||||||
Less than secondary | 56.7 | 18.2 | 25.2 | 330 | 0.271 | |
Secondary | 60.4 | 17.9 | 21.7 | 553 | ||
Post-secondary | 68.1 | 10.4 | 21.5 | 144 | ||
Residency | 0.656 | |||||
Less than 30 years | 60.5 | 18.4 | 21.1 | 261 | ||
More than 29 years | 60.2 | 16.4 | 23.4 | 766 | ||
Marital | 0.043 | |||||
Single | 56.6 | 18.0 | 25.5 | 412 | ||
Not single | 62.8 | 16.3 | 21.0 | 615 | ||
Gender | ||||||
Male | 58.0 | 17.2 | 24.8 | 715 | 0.032 | |
Female | 65.4 | 16.3 | 18.3 | 312 | ||
Age | ||||||
Youth | 61.4 | 18.0 | 20.6 | 583 | 0.130 | |
Elder | 58.8 | 15.5 | 25.7 | 444 | ||
Organization | ||||||
Scale | ||||||
Local | 66.7 | 13.7 | 19.6 | 255 | <0.001 | |
Sub-National | 65.9 | 17.9 | 16.2 | 536 | ||
National | 40.7 | 18.2 | 41.1 | 236 | ||
Fish and wildlife | ||||||
Yes | 64.9 | 17.6 | 17.6 | 478 | <0.001 | |
No | 56.3 | 16.4 | 27.3 | 549 | ||
Industry | ||||||
Yes | 19.5 | 28.0 | 52.5 | 173 | <0.0001 | |
No | 60.3 | 23.3 | 16.35 | 1101 | ||
Legal authority | ||||||
Yes | 45.7 | 18.7 | 35.6 | 438 | <0.0001 | |
No | 71.1 | 15.6 | 13.2 | 589 | ||
Indigenous * | ||||||
Yes | 72.8 | 14.3 | 12.9 | 481 | <0.001 | |
No | 49.3 | 19.2 | 31.5 | 546 |
Effect | Odds Ratio | Confidence Intervals | p> |z| | ||
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Location | |||||
Churchill vs. Alaska | 0.06 | 1.58 | 0 | 0.09 | |
Nunavut vs. Alaska | 0.45 | 1.09 | 0.19 | 0.08 | |
Scale | |||||
National vs. local | 0.55 | 0.84 | 0.35 | 0.01 | |
Subnational vs. local | 0.66 | 0.96 | 0.46 | 0.03 | |
Fish and wildlife | |||||
Yes vs. No | 1.57 | 2.14 | 1.16 | 0 | |
Legal | |||||
Yes vs. No | 0.47 | 0.66 | 0.33 | 0 | |
Education | |||||
Secondary vs. less than secondary | 1.76 | 2.94 | 1.76 | 0.03 | |
Post-secondary vs. less than secondary | 2.61 | 5.20 | 1.05 | 0.01 |
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Schmidt, J.I.; Clark, D.; Lokken, N.; Lankshear, J.; Hausner, V. The Role of Trust in Sustainable Management of Land, Fish, and Wildlife Populations in the Arctic. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124
Schmidt JI, Clark D, Lokken N, Lankshear J, Hausner V. The Role of Trust in Sustainable Management of Land, Fish, and Wildlife Populations in the Arctic. Sustainability. 2018; 10(9):3124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124
Chicago/Turabian StyleSchmidt, Jennifer I., Douglas Clark, Nils Lokken, Jessica Lankshear, and Vera Hausner. 2018. "The Role of Trust in Sustainable Management of Land, Fish, and Wildlife Populations in the Arctic" Sustainability 10, no. 9: 3124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124