Automated content analysis as a tool for research and practice: A case illustration from the Prairie Creek and Nico environmental assessments in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Public engagement is essential to the procedural and substantive sustainability of environmental assessment. Public hearings present the lowest barrier to entry for public participation, but these forums face competing political pressures for conducting appropriate public engagement within an expedi...
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ftagakhanuniv:oai:ecommons.aku.edu:provost_office-1748 2024-09-15T18:18:12+00:00 Automated content analysis as a tool for research and practice: A case illustration from the Prairie Creek and Nico environmental assessments in the Northwest Territories, Canada McGetrick, Jennifer Ann Bubela, Tania M Hik, David S. 2017-04-03T07:00:00Z https://ecommons.aku.edu/provost_office/748 https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2016.1239496 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14615517.2016.1239496 unknown eCommons@AKU https://ecommons.aku.edu/provost_office/748 doi:10.1080/14615517.2016.1239496 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14615517.2016.1239496 Office of the Provost Automated content analysis Circumpolar region Environmental assessment Natural resource development Public hearings Public participation Environmental Health and Protection Environmental Sciences Water Resource Management article 2017 ftagakhanuniv https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2016.1239496 2024-07-29T03:34:00Z Public engagement is essential to the procedural and substantive sustainability of environmental assessment. Public hearings present the lowest barrier to entry for public participation, but these forums face competing political pressures for conducting appropriate public engagement within an expeditious process. Repositories of public hearing testimony provide a source of primary data for examining these public engagement issues during environmental assessments. However, the time and resources required may be prohibitive for conducting the kind of in-depth qualitative analyses that are commonly used. Automated content analysis (ACA) techniques can provide a rapid, replicable, inductive, and systematic way to examine public hearing transcripts, consisting of the critical development and application of computer programming scripts that synthesize evidence from extensive document sets. This case illustration demonstrates the potential utility of ACA, based on the examination of two public hearings, Prairie Creek (EA0809-002; 2008–2011) and Nico (EA0809-004; 2009–2013) conducted in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada. Our interpretation of the findings provides an evaluation of ACA methods and situates its potential to inform environmental assessment research and practice across jurisdictions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Mackenzie Valley Northwest Territories The Aga Khan University: eCommons@AKU Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 35 2 139 147 |
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Public engagement is essential to the procedural and substantive sustainability of environmental assessment. Public hearings present the lowest barrier to entry for public participation, but these forums face competing political pressures for conducting appropriate public engagement within an expeditious process. Repositories of public hearing testimony provide a source of primary data for examining these public engagement issues during environmental assessments. However, the time and resources required may be prohibitive for conducting the kind of in-depth qualitative analyses that are commonly used. Automated content analysis (ACA) techniques can provide a rapid, replicable, inductive, and systematic way to examine public hearing transcripts, consisting of the critical development and application of computer programming scripts that synthesize evidence from extensive document sets. This case illustration demonstrates the potential utility of ACA, based on the examination of two public hearings, Prairie Creek (EA0809-002; 2008–2011) and Nico (EA0809-004; 2009–2013) conducted in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada. Our interpretation of the findings provides an evaluation of ACA methods and situates its potential to inform environmental assessment research and practice across jurisdictions. |
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Automated content analysis as a tool for research and practice: A case illustration from the Prairie Creek and Nico environmental assessments in the Northwest Territories, Canada |
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