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The Role of Trust in the Participatory Establishment of Protected Areas—Lessons Learnt from a Failed National Park Project in Switzerland

Michel, Annina Helena; Pleger, Lyn Ellen; von Atzigen, Aline; Bosello, Ottavia; Sager, Fritz; Hunziker, Marcel; Graefe, Olivier; Siegrist, Dominik; Backhaus, Norman (2022). The Role of Trust in the Participatory Establishment of Protected Areas—Lessons Learnt from a Failed National Park Project in Switzerland. Society & Natural Resources, 35(5):487-505.

Abstract

This article explores the reasons for the local rejection of a proposed national park in Switzerland. Using a mixed-methods approach and resorting to qualitative and quantitative data, we follow the thread of trust issues in the participatory planning process of a protected area. Different rationales and discourses, both project-specific but also more general, influenced the opinions of local stakeholders. Connecting these different opinions was the issue of (dis)trust, which weaves in and out of prominent lines of argumentation and informs individual sentiments. The application of a multidimensional trust framework helps to understand the influence of different types of trust on protected area negotiations. We discuss how a focus on rational trust building can help to sharpen the diverse goals of contemporary protected areas with integrated conservation and economic development schemes, as well as enable the emergence of other types of trust to facilitate conservation debates.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
08 Research Priority Programs > Global Change and Biodiversity
Dewey Decimal Classification:790 Sports, games & entertainment
390 Customs, etiquette & folklore
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Development
Physical Sciences > Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Political Science
Uncontrolled Keywords:Decentralized natural resource management; Europe; parks and protected areas; trust
Language:English
Date:4 May 2022
Deposited On:11 Nov 2021 16:12
Last Modified:26 Oct 2024 01:37
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
ISSN:0894-1920
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.1994679
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