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dc.contributor.authorWeymouth, Robert
dc.contributor.authorHartz-Karp, Janette
dc.contributor.authorMarinova, Dora
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-01T09:46:11Z
dc.date.available2020-09-01T09:46:11Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationWeymouth, R. and Hartz-Karp, J. and Marinova, D. 2020. Repairing political trust for practical sustainability. Sustainability. (12): Article No. 7055.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80832
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su12177055
dc.description.abstract

High levels of trust in government are important in addressing complex issues, including the realization of the mainstream sustainability agenda. However, trust in government has been declining for decades across the western world, undermining legitimacy and hampering policy implementation and planning for long-term sustainability. We hypothesize that an important factor in this decline is citizen disappointment with the current types of public participation in governance and that this could be reversed through a change from informing/consulting to a relationship of partnership. Using case studies from Western Australia, the paper investigates whether an intervention targeted at establishing a partnership relationship through mini-public, deliberative, participatory budgeting would improve trust and help the implementation of sustainability. These results show evidence of improvements in trust and provide conceptual and practical tools for government administrations wishing to close the detrimental trust gap that may hamper the implementation of a sustainability agenda.

dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject1205 - Urban and Regional Planning
dc.titleRepairing political trust for practical sustainability
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.number12
dcterms.source.issn2071-1050
dcterms.source.titleSustainability
dc.date.updated2020-09-01T09:46:10Z
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by MDPI Publishing.

curtin.departmentSchool of Design and the Built Environment
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.orcidMarinova, Dora [0000-0001-5125-8878]
curtin.contributor.researcheridMarinova, Dora [H-2093-2013]
curtin.identifier.article-number7055
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridMarinova, Dora [6701561637]


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