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Abstract
This research examines trust at the government, industry, community nexus, as mediated by media, and its effect on social licence (SLO). We attempted to understand levels and importance of trust in New Zealand's natural resource sectors by examining ways of building, maintaining and assessing public trust in a post-truth society. We surveyed 128 New Zealand public and held a stakeholder forum about perceptions of trust in relation to natural resource sectors. The results provide indications of novel advances around trust and trustworthiness. Honesty was highlighted as the top influencer of trustworthiness and trust, and dishonesty as the top influencer of distrust. In contrast to other literature, we find a nuanced understanding of trust among respondents in relation to the media ‒ respondents distrusted actors cited in media more than the media outlet or platform itself. Further, our findings suggest there is no discernible change in trust levels in the post-truth era, in this context.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Edwards, P and Fleming, A and Lacey, J and Lester, L and Pinkard, L and Ruckstuhl, K and Bezuidenhout, C and Payn, T and Bayne, K and Williams, T |
Keywords: | natural resources, social licence to operate, trust, trustworthiness, honesty, dishonesty |
Journal or Publication Title: | Environmental Research Letters |
Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. |
ISSN: | 1748-9326 |
DOI / ID Number: | 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf33c |
Copyright Information: | © 2018 The Author(s). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
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