Using Key Informant Interviews to Better Understand Open Space Conservation in a Developing Watershed

Elmendorf, William F.; Luloff, A. E.

doi:10.48044/jauf.2006.007

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“…Utilized for decades in studies on climate and water related issues, informant interviews improve understanding of stakeholder experience and perception [16]. This investigative tool has been employed to explore expert opinions on science and policy, identify scientific gaps, gather stakeholder views on climate change and drought perception [17,18], and determine public perception of climate issues and associated water issues [7,19,20]. Here, a panel of experts in Colorado water were interviewed to better understand water management challenges, and to ultimately inform a wide-spread survey study on water monitoring.…”

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Investigating technology opportunities toward improved Colorado water monitoring: Insights from key informant interviews and stakeholder surveys

Holland,

Demaree,

Thomas

2023

PLOS Water

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Prolonged drought conditions in the western United States have prompted an interest in improved water resource management. In the past two decades, Colorado has experienced decreasing precipitation and increasing temperatures, causing persistent meteorological and agricultural drought. In times of limited water resources, more precise water accounting and water conservation is often required. We investigated technological and monitoring gaps in Colorado water resource management using a sequential explanatory mix-method approach, including key informant interviews and a survey study. Key informant interviews gave insight into water monitoring concerns and informed a state-wide survey on monitoring gaps and water resource challenges. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of interview transcripts and survey results found that the most critical monitoring gaps for water managers in Colorado are: (1) streamflow forecasting and improved understanding of Colorado snowpack, (2) expanding groundwater and soil moisture monitoring, (3) wildfire impacts on watershed health, (4) improved accuracy and reliability of data sources, and (5) addressing these gaps while maintaining an emphasis on community collaboration. Challenges for Colorado managers varied by stakeholder basin and sector but included changes in hydrologic systems due to the effects of extended drought, climate change, and related anthropogenic impacts and negative impacts of intensifying wildfire seasons on water quality and watershed health.

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Investigating technology opportunities toward improved Colorado water monitoring: Insights from key informant interviews and stakeholder surveys

Holland,

Demaree,

Thomas

2023

PLOS Water

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“…Once access has been granted, the researcher begins to engage with “key informants” (Elmendorf and Luloff, 2006; Tremblay, 1957), which we prefer to call “key participants.” These are practitioners placed in organizational positions who provide access to the answers for the research questions under study (Elmendorf and Luloff, 2006). Key-participant interviews are appropriate when seeking answers to questions in which the subject matter is sensitive (like the pandemic) and when researchers value quality of responses over quantity (Fontana and Frey, 1994; Mahoney, 1997; Yin, 2003).…”

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“…4.2.3 Engage with and interview key participants. Once access has been granted, the researcher begins to engage with "key informants" (Elmendorf and Luloff, 2006;Tremblay, 1957), which we prefer to call "key participants." These are practitioners placed in organizational positions who provide access to the answers for the research questions under study (Elmendorf and Luloff, 2006).…”

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Influencing supply chain practice: the action principles approach applied to pandemic risk management

Hoek

Lacity²,

Willcocks³

2022

IJPDLM

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PurposeThis paper offers a novel approach for conducting impactful research on emerging topics or practices. This method is particularly relevant in the face of emerging phenomena and new dynamics, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chain risks. Because these new phenomena and dynamics are relatively unexplored, little prior knowledge exists in literature and industry, and they represent a large opportunity and/or challenge to practitioners.Design/methodology/approachThe action principles research (APR) approach, as a newer version of critically engaged research (CER), offers comparison against more traditional empirical or intervention-based research. The authors illustrate the approach with a pandemic risk-management study.FindingsThe APR approach originated in the information technology field. It is highly applicable for researchers who are seeking to more expeditiously support decision making and actioning on new dynamics and emerging topics and practice in supply chain management than is allowed by traditional methods and longitudinal CER.Originality/valueIn the context of ongoing calls for relevance, impact and actionable findings on pandemic risk management, this paper describes an approach to developing timely findings that are actionable for practitioners and that advance science around dynamic and emerging topics or practices. We hope this will grow societal value of research, particularly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new dynamics and uncertainties that managers face in modern supply chains.

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Impact Sourcing: Employing Prison Inmates to Perform Digitally Enabled Business Services

Lacity¹,

Rottman²,

Carmel³

2016

Socially Responsible Outsourcing

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Impact sourcing is the practice of training and hiring marginalized individuals (people who normally would have few opportunities for good employment) to provide information technology (IT), business process, or other digitallyenabled services. Perhaps no other population is more marginalized than prisoners. Worldwide there are over six million prisoners, of which over two million are U.S. prisoners. In the U.S., 95 percent of inmates will one day be released. Prison employment programs are interventions aimed at preparing inmates to reenter society. We studied a special type of prison employment program: the hiring and training of prisoners to perform business services using a computer. The impact of prison sourcing needs to be understood in two distinct time periods: while in prison and after prison. Based on a case study at a U.S. Federal Correctional Institution employing 140 inmates in prison sourcing, we found evidence that prison sourcing for business services positively affects the inmates while in prison. The main benefits are good financial compensation, work habit development, productively occupying time, development of business skills, and the elevation of self-efficacy and status. We have almost no data about the impact on future prospects and explain why this gap happens.

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Using Key Informant Interviews to Better Understand Open Space Conservation in a Developing Watershed

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Investigating technology opportunities toward improved Colorado water monitoring: Insights from key informant interviews and stakeholder surveys

Investigating technology opportunities toward improved Colorado water monitoring: Insights from key informant interviews and stakeholder surveys

Influencing supply chain practice: the action principles approach applied to pandemic risk management

Impact Sourcing: Employing Prison Inmates to Perform Digitally Enabled Business Services

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