Building fire-adaptive communities and fostering fire-resilient landscapes have become two
of the main research strands of wildfire science that go beyond strictly biophysical …

Culture influences how fire is perceived and managed in societies. An increasing risk of
catastrophic wildfire has shifted political and academic attention on the use of Indigenous …

Motivated by current debates over the relationship between epidemic and trust, this paper
estimates the short-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on general trust, political trust, and …

Stories create shared meaning between people. Scenarios are stories that provide people
an opportunity to share their personal narratives of the future. This study documents how a …

Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples' legal rights to forests has motivated an
increase in collaborative forest governance in recent decades. Collaborative governance …

Research in the field shows the crucial role of trust in the functioning of many aspects of
social life, especially when dealing with emergencies. We report the results of a study (N …

Different childhood experiences, including those that involve abuse, violence, and being
removed from the home and placed in government care can have lingering effects that last …

Global public administration remains an incomplete project with contested notions of its aims
and objectives. Given its disputed nature we focus on developing a negative definition of …

Trust is critical to collaborative governance, including of natural resources. Existing
frameworks variously emphasize the impact of individual propensity, interpersonal …

The role of the village headman and council of elders is very important in many societies.
The focus of this article is to analyse the evolution and the role of the (informal) intermediary …