Contemporary natural resource management (NRM) emphasises the role of the public in general and land owners in particular as voluntary participants in the process. Understanding the role of trust in voluntary cooperation is therefore critical, but the current state of the relevant literature is such that it fails to systematically address a few important issues. This inquiry sought to address these issues by presenting and testing a model of land owners’ trust in and cooperation with a NRM institution. The model hypothesises that the six major drivers of trust in this context (dispositional trust, care, competence, confidence, procedural fairness and salient values similarity) are distinct but correlated constructs that drive cooperation and whose effects are moderated by the sophistication (relevant knowledge and experience) of the trustor. The results provide complicated partial support for the hypotheses and suggest that (1) although the six constructs are separable, their effects on cooperation are not as distinct as expected; (2) the most important consideration for cooperation may, in fact, be a broader evaluation – potentially a willingness to be vulnerable to the target and (3) if sophistication is an important moderator of the effect of trust, it is likely to require only a low level of general sophistication about the target institution to encourage trustors to rely most strongly on their perceptions of the institution itself.

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信任对预测自然资源管理机构与农村土地所有者合作的影响

当代自然资源管理（NRM）强调公众在整个过程中的作用，尤其是土地所有者作为自愿参与过程的角色。因此，了解信任在自愿合作中的作用至关重要，但是相关文献的当前状态使得它无法系统地解决一些重要问题。这项调查旨在通过展示和测试土地所有者对NRM机构的信任与合作模型来解决这些问题。该模型假设认为，在这种情况下，信任的六个主要驱动因素（性格信任，护理，能力，信心，程序公正性和显着性价值相似性）是截然不同但相互关联的结构，这些结构驱动合作并且其影响通过复杂性得到缓和（相关知识和经验）。结果为假设提供了复杂的部分支持，并表明：（1）尽管六个构建体是可分离的，但它们对合作的影响并没有预期的那么明显；（2）实际上，合作的最重要考虑因素可能是更广泛的评估-潜在地倾向于易受目标的影响；（3）如果复杂性是信任效果的重要调节者，则可能仅要求对目标机构的理解程度较低，以鼓励信托人最强烈地依赖于他们对机构本身的看法。