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| DOI | 10.1021/acsestwater.3c00612 |
| A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| EISSN | 2690-0637 |
| 起始页码 | 4 |
| 结束页码 | 2 |
| 卷号 | 4期号:2 |
| 英文摘要 | People are paramount in the operations of water infrastructure systems. While such processes are similar throughout most communities in the United States, including treatment and distribution, each community encounters localized challenges. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta of Alaska, specifically, water sector professionals (e.g., water plant operators and water haulers) encounter unique and extreme challenges. The harsh arctic weather makes road navigation dangerous for water haulers, and water plant operators must contend with a precarious supply chain when ordering supplies for maintenance. Such challenges can disrupt water provision for communities. In this study, we analyze semistructured interviews with 24 Alaska water sector professionals, using qualitative content analysis and semicognitive mapping. We built a conceptual integration of systems and stakeholder theory to identify barriers to water provision and leverage points for improvement. We examine three components of the water provision process in rural Alaska communities: water treatment, hauled water distribution, and piped water distribution. We show that to increase workforce retention, limit worker burnout, and ensure reliable water provision, practices including training and certification need to become more localized. Moreover, working conditions and operating environment around the worker need to be more central in water system considerations, especially for water hauling, where workers play a critical role in water distribution. This analysis reveals a key conclusion that underlies all our propositions: people are a leverage point for water provision improvement. In so doing, we contribute to the literature in public administration and bureaucracy, sociotechnical systems, and stakeholder theory as applied to infrastructure systems, more generally, and water systems, more specifically. |
| 英文关键词 | operations; infrastructure; stakeholders; systems; rural; Alaska; training |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Water Resources |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001161340400001 |
| 来源期刊 | ACS ES&T WATER
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/299521 |
| 作者单位 | University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Oxford; University of Alaska System; University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | . A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska[J],2024,4(2). |
| APA | (2024).A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska.ACS ES&T WATER,4(2). |
| MLA | "A Stakeholder-Systems Analysis of Water Provision in Rural Alaska".ACS ES&T WATER 4.2(2024). |
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