Understanding residents’ perceptions of nature and local economic activities using an open-ended question before protected area designation in Amami Islands, Japan

Mitsui, Satomi; Kubo, Takahiro; Shoji, Yasushi

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125857

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“…Furthermore, the number of topics could adversely affect the quality of the topics [44]. Tvinnereim and Fløttum [45] and Mitsui et al [46] used topic modelling to extract information from the open-ended survey questions related to climate change and protected area assessment respectively. We could not find the application of topic models to extract information from open-ended responses in the context of travel behaviour research.…”

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Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended Responses: A Comparison Study Using Topic Modeling and Factor Analysis

Baburajan

Silva²,

Pereira

2021

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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For practical reasons, surveys that aim for a large number of respondents tend to restrict themselves to closed-ended responses. Despite potentially bringing richer insights, the use of open-ended questions poses great challenges in terms of extracting useful information while significantly increasing the analysis time. Nevertheless, automatic text analysis techniques speed up the analysis of open-ended responses. In this research, we explore the potential to use techniques in topic modelling [Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Supervised LDA (sLDA)] to extract information from open-ended responses. This is compared to the information obtained from closed-ended responses, accomplished using a questionnaire that measures the intention to use shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs). Two versions of the questionnaire-Ver_OE and Ver_Lk were used, with open-ended and Likert scales measuring the same attitudes in the alternative versions. Factors were extracted for closed-ended questions. For questions common to both versions of the questionnaire, respondents answering Ver_OE had a higher positive attitude towards autonomous vehicles. These attitudinal questions were placed after the open-ended questions. When evaluating the performance of the models that predict the intention to use SAVs, models estimated using Ver_OE performed better. This increased further with the inclusion of the information extracted from the open-ended responses using both, the unsupervised (LDA) and supervised (sLDA) methods. No improvement was observed in the model for Ver_Lk. These indicate the potential for the use of open-ended questions to measure attitudes and topic modelling to extract information from these responses.

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Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended Responses: A Comparison Study Using Topic Modeling and Factor Analysis

Baburajan

Silva²,

Pereira

2021

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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“…Although there are considerable studies on the motivation for conveying conservation easement in the US, the different social, economic, political, and cultural differences make those research results enlightening but not conclusive for the developing world. Understanding the motives affecting participation in such programmes is vital to further development and refinement of policies to motivate community participation [28][29][30].…”

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Why Agree to a Forest Easement? Perception of the Residents about the Adaptation of the Conservation Easement in Qianjiangyuan National Park

Wei

2023

Forests

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Conservation easements (CEs) were introduced in the Chinese context to resolve the conflict between rural land use and area-based conservation measures. As conservation easements are usually set on private lands, little is known about their adaptation to the collective land tenure. We introduced a social-psychological aspect to sustainable livelihoods (SL) for an integrated decision-making mechanism to assess rural residents’ motivations for granting CEs. We surveyed farmers in the Qianjiangyuan National Park pilot area in order to explore how tangible factors, i.e., the livelihood assets, and intangible factors, i.e., farmers’ perceptions of the livelihood environment, affected their true feeling of conservation easements. Results suggested that CEs that were adapted to the collectively-owned forestland followed a well-established grassroots democracy but sacrificed the CE’s diversity in restricted uses tailored to specific landowners and properties. Institutional capital and perception of the economic environment appeared most important to affect farmers’ acceptance of CEs. Furthermore, the livelihood assets affected farmers’ perception of the livelihood environment, and their acceptance of CEs affected the perception of policy outcomes. Overall, our findings demonstrate the acceptance of conservation easements as a livelihood strategic choice and strengthen the importance of securing economic rights in the changing institutional environment.

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“…More sophisticated approaches such as word-based (Jehn, 1995;Niedomysl and Malmberg, 2009) or content-based (Hsieh and Shannon, 2005;Mamali et al, 2020) analysis, which relies on the frequency of occurrence of words in the text, have also been used. Other methods used to extract information include Automated Text Analysis (Mossholder et al, 1995;ten Kleij and Musters, 2003) and Topic Models (Baburajan et al, 2018;Mitsui et al, 2020;Roberts et al, 2014;Tvinnereim and Fløttum, 2015). Now that we have presented the two approaches, their merits, and their demerits, we would stress that some of the concerns related to using the two approaches discussed above remain unresolved.…”

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Open vs closed-ended questions in attitudinal surveys – Comparing, combining, and interpreting using natural language processing

Baburajan

Silva²,

Pereira

2022

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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Understanding residents’ perceptions of nature and local economic activities using an open-ended question before protected area designation in Amami Islands, Japan

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended Responses: A Comparison Study Using Topic Modeling and Factor Analysis

Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended Responses: A Comparison Study Using Topic Modeling and Factor Analysis

Why Agree to a Forest Easement? Perception of the Residents about the Adaptation of the Conservation Easement in Qianjiangyuan National Park

Open vs closed-ended questions in attitudinal surveys – Comparing, combining, and interpreting using natural language processing

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