Trust predicts cooperation with conservation conflict interventions in a framed public-goods game

Conservation conflicts are widespread, wicked problems, with damaging environmental and social consequences. Many different types of interventions have been designed and implemented to manage conservation conflicts. However, little attention has been paid as to whether who carries out these interventions is important. In this presentation, I describe how we used a novel experimental framed public goods game to test how stakeholder support for conservation conflict interventions varies with different intervening groups. I then show how we explored whether this variance was explained by differences in trust, since trust in conservation organisations has been identified as important in shaping…