Local perspectives on confronting water scarcity

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Alfonso Andrés Cortez-Lara ◽  
José Luís Castro-Ruíz ◽  
Vicente Sánchez-Munguía
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The Common ◽  
Local Perspectives

This study examines the social and institutional factors that determine whether local actors in the region take local and binational actions to manage scarce and highly contested water resources, focusing in the Mexican portion of the Colorado River. Based on the common pool resources and institutional approaches, the research project analyzes qualitative data from individual interviews with local key informants as well as official documents. The results reveal: (1) the variety of institutional behaviors, actions, and strategies implemented at the local and binational level; and (2) how complementary perspectives contribute to sustainable water management. The findings of the study contribute to the common pool resources literature by showing the importance of the actors’ collaboration to address water scarcity in a context of rapidly changing conditions.

scholarly journals Putting graphic elicitation into practice: tools and typologies for the use of participant-led diagrams in qualitative research interviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 506-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Bravington ◽  
Nigel King
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social World ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
The Common ◽  
Year 2000

The use of diagrams to stimulate dialogue in research interviews, a technique known as graphic elicitation, has burgeoned since the year 2000. Reviews of the graphic elicitation literature have relied on the inconsistent terminology currently used to index visual methods, and have so far drawn only a partial picture of their use. Individual diagrams are seen as stand-alone tools, often linked to particular disciplines, rather than as images created from a toolbox of common elements which can be customized to suit a research study. There is a need to examine participant-led diagramming with a view to matching the common elements of diagrams with the objectives of a research project. This article aims to provide an overview of diagramming techniques used in qualitative data collection with individual participants, to relate the features of diagrams to the aspects of the social world they represent, and to suggest how to choose a technique to suit a research question.

scholarly journals Early- and mid-career transition to research leadership in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Linda Mtwisha ◽  
Jose Jackson ◽  
Alison Mitchel ◽  
Ama de-Graft Aikins ◽  
Harriet Kebirungi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Career Transition ◽  
Early Career ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Research Leadership ◽  
The Common ◽  
Transition Points ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

This article examines the early-and mid-career transition to research leadership in Africa. Much of the available African literature on research leadership indicate several challenges related to poor conceptualisations of career transitions and gaps in the availability of research training. Qualitative data were collected using individual interviews (n=24) and focus groups (n=27) to identify key transition points of early career researchers (ECRs) and mid-career researchers (MCRs) in selected African countries. The qualitative data was complemented with quantitative survey questionnaires (n=250) and a triangulation approach was adopted to analyse the results. The findings were themed into different categories describing the common career paths, stages and challenges of research leaders. The latter part of the findings present a discussion on development approaches to attract and retain researchers in African universities. By focusing on the African continent, this study contributes to the current body of literature on research leadership in the Global South.

scholarly journals EXTERNALITIES AND PROPERTY AS GUIDING FACTOR FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF COMMON POOL RESOURCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Diego De Melo Conti ◽  
Paulo Sergio Gonçalves de Oliveira ◽  
Alan Tadeu de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
The Future ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Common

:This article aims to reflect about how can be managed the common pool resources oriented by principles of externalities and property. Thus, the guiding concepts for decision making regarding these two factors were those of the positive or negative externalities generated from the exploration, and the use of a good as well as the aspects related to the property of resources. Based on the understanding that resources can be categorized, as being rivals and / or excluders, and their consume generate externalities to other social actors in the present, as well as to their own possessors or potential users in the future. Therefore, based on the study of these relationships, a better decision-making process can be reached on the issues of ownership of access, and on management as to the preservation and use of common pool resources. Moreover, it is necessary to understand that every resource consumed promotes, at some point, positive or negative externalities to other individuals. In addition, the simple monetization of resources does not solve the problem of negative externalities. Therefore, based on the categorization of the property that has to be exercised, and the externalities, it is possible to understand how to manage a common pool resource. This situation helps to understand the exercise of control and usufruct of the common pools.

scholarly journals The slippery slope of cultural non-participation: Orientations of participation among the potentially passive

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942090280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riie Heikkilä
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Egalitarian Society ◽  
Cultural Taste

Research on cultural practices has highlighted the rise of different cultural consumption patterns that challenge the classic theories on class-based hierarchies. However, most scholarly work has focused on active, rather than passive, cultural consumers. This article aims to fill that gap by exploring the orientations of cultural participation of hypothetically passive cultural consumers in contemporary Finland. Existing research proves that culturally non-active groups are difficult to reach through quantitative methods, so this project will draw on qualitative data: 40 individual interviews on everyday life, cultural taste, knowledge and participation with a theoretical sample of people whose background profiles statistically predict cultural non-participation. This article finds three main orientations of participation, expressed as attitudes on different kinds of cultural practices and symbolic boundaries drawn – these orientations of participation are the social-mundane, the cultural-legitimate and the introvert-hostile. It is argued that while none of the orientations equals to cultural non-participation, the latter orientation stands out from the other two as drawing symbolic boundaries upward, highlighting that cultural participation remains a highly stratified and polarized field, also in an egalitarian society.

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