Mark Duckworth - Natural Hazards Research Forum 2025 presentation.pdf

1、Mark Duckworth PSM FIPAAAssociate Director&Senior Research Fellow,Centre for Resilient and Inclusive SocietiesAlfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation,Deakin University NATURAL HAZARDS RESEARCH FORUMADELAIDE 20 JUNE 2025Version 2.1Trust is the glue that holds society togetherThis pr

2、esentation based on two recent reports Duckworth,M.,Horn,C.,&Grossman,M.2024.Do Governments Trust Communities?The Trust Flows Project Research Report.Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.https:/www.crisconsortium.org/trust-flows-research-project Duckworth,Mark,Michelle OToole,(2025)Removing

3、barriers to trust building:Proposals to rebuild trust between governments and communities“Trust is a slippery concept entire books have been written to try and pin down its precise meaning”*Trust is a social construct with many characteristics.Sociologists,psychologists,economists and those working

4、on systems theory have developed many theories.The issue of trust has been central to many important thinkers of the past few decades including:Anthony Giddens;Ulrich Beck;Francis Fukuyama;Robert Putnam,Onora ONeill.There is a vast literature on the epistemology of trust.*S Parker et al,2008 State o

5、f Trust:How to build better relationships between councils and the public,London:Demos,2008,3406-10-21 What is trust?It is based on emotion and on experience and evidence.It requires a reciprocal relationship with the parties and includes a number of characteristics:predictability and reliability;co

6、nfident expectation of future action;being vulnerable.Trust acts as a“protective cocoon”.(Anthony Giddens)Trust requires those involved open themselves up a degree of vulnerability and“provides a vital way for social beings to deal with risk,uncertainty and complexity”.*It can be broken when one par