Jones, Kelly

Our study uses a context-mechanism-outcome approach to highlight how trust diversity emerges in wildfire collaborative archetypes and how it impacts collaborative environmental, social and process outcomes. Using survey data from wildland collaboratives, we identify three distinct collaborative archetypes arising from landscape and property rights heterogeneity, stakeholder distributions and value diversity and collaborative mission orientations. We characterize four distinct trust types of these collaborative groups including affinitive trust, dispositional trust, rational trust and procedural trust. We find that collaborative process mechanisms such as trust types, development and maintenance differ across collaborative archetypes. We also find that the contexts and mechanisms differentially influence outcome achievement with partial achievement of social and environmental outcomes but substantial gains in process outcomes depending on trust diversity and archetype group. Ultimately, understanding the mechanisms of operation in different contexts can help guide improved decision-making, navigate conflict and create more equitable participation in collaborative wildfire management.