The role of trust in sustainable management of land, fish, and wildlife populations in the Arctic
Source at https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124. Sustainable resource management depends on support from the public and local stakeholders. Fish, wildlife, and land management in remote areas face the challenge of working across vast areas, often with limited resources, to monitor land use or the statu...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/14934 2023-05-15T14:26:46+02:00 The role of trust in sustainable management of land, fish, and wildlife populations in the Arctic Schmidt, Jennifer Irene Clark, Douglas Lokken, Nils Lankshear, Jessica Hausner, Vera Helene 2018-09-01 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/14934 https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124 eng eng MDPI Sustainability info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/MILJØ2015/192040/Norway/TVERS: Drivers of change in circumpolar tundra ecosystems/TUNDRA/ Schmidt, J.I., Clark, D., Lokken, N., Lankshear, J. & Hausner, V. (2018). The role of trust in sustainable management of land, fish, and wildlife populations in the Arctic. Sustainability, 10 (9), 3124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124 FRIDAID 1631694 doi:10.3390/su10093124 2071-1050 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/14934 openAccess Arctic climate knowledge governance Indigenous trust wildlife land sustainability management natural resources VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2018 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124 2021-06-25T17:56:28Z Source at https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124. Sustainable resource management depends on support from the public and local stakeholders. Fish, wildlife, and land management in remote areas face the challenge of working across vast areas, often with limited resources, to monitor land use or the status of the fish-and-wildlife populations. Resource managers depend on local residents, often Indigenous, to gain information about environmental changes and harvest trends. Developing mutual trust is thus important for the transfer of knowledge and sustainable use of land resources. We interviewed residents of eight communities in Arctic Alaska and Canada and analyzed their trust in resource governance organizations using mixed-methods. Trust was much greater among Alaska (72%) and Nunavut (62%) residents than Churchill (23%). Trust was highest for organizations that dealt with fish and wildlife issues, had no legal enforcement rights, and were associated with Indigenous peoples. Local organizations were trusted more than non-local in Alaska and Nunavut, but the opposite was true in Churchill. Association tests and modeling indicated that characteristics of organizations were significantly related to trust, whereas education was among the few individual-level characteristics that mattered for trust. Familiarity, communication, and education are crucial to improve, maintain, or foster trust for more effective management of natural resources in such remote communities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Nunavut Alaska University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Canada Nunavut Sustainability 10 9 3124 |
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Arctic climate knowledge governance Indigenous trust wildlife land sustainability management natural resources VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 Schmidt, Jennifer Irene Clark, Douglas Lokken, Nils Lankshear, Jessica Hausner, Vera Helene The role of trust in sustainable management of land, fish, and wildlife populations in the Arctic |
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Source at https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124. Sustainable resource management depends on support from the public and local stakeholders. Fish, wildlife, and land management in remote areas face the challenge of working across vast areas, often with limited resources, to monitor land use or the status of the fish-and-wildlife populations. Resource managers depend on local residents, often Indigenous, to gain information about environmental changes and harvest trends. Developing mutual trust is thus important for the transfer of knowledge and sustainable use of land resources. We interviewed residents of eight communities in Arctic Alaska and Canada and analyzed their trust in resource governance organizations using mixed-methods. Trust was much greater among Alaska (72%) and Nunavut (62%) residents than Churchill (23%). Trust was highest for organizations that dealt with fish and wildlife issues, had no legal enforcement rights, and were associated with Indigenous peoples. Local organizations were trusted more than non-local in Alaska and Nunavut, but the opposite was true in Churchill. Association tests and modeling indicated that characteristics of organizations were significantly related to trust, whereas education was among the few individual-level characteristics that mattered for trust. Familiarity, communication, and education are crucial to improve, maintain, or foster trust for more effective management of natural resources in such remote communities. |
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Sustainability info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/MILJØ2015/192040/Norway/TVERS: Drivers of change in circumpolar tundra ecosystems/TUNDRA/ Schmidt, J.I., Clark, D., Lokken, N., Lankshear, J. & Hausner, V. (2018). The role of trust in sustainable management of land, fish, and wildlife populations in the Arctic. Sustainability, 10 (9), 3124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124 FRIDAID 1631694 doi:10.3390/su10093124 2071-1050 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/14934 |
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