ABSTRACT
It has become a common dictum in natural resource management literature that trust is critical to grease the wheels of planning, collaboration, and implementation. However, different scholars have conceptualized trust in varying ways. In this chapter, we first review dominant frameworks for conceptualizing multiple aspects of trust and map each framework onto collaborative natural resource management. In doing so, we draw meaningful distinctions between the concepts of trust, trustworthiness, critical trust, distrust, and the actions that trust and distrust can foment. We demonstrate the special utility of the trust ecology framework for collaborative natural resource management contexts and draw upon empirical research from Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) cases to illustrate lessons and opportunities that emerge from considering its key elements.
