Burke_EDI_NENA.VT001.ResearcherSurvey.2017.09.21.pdf

Researcher-completed surveys and responses: This survey is used by the researcher to organize and collect data on each organization or program selected as an Energy Democracy Initiatives (EDI). The survey allows the researcher to identify and organize features or attributes for each selected EDI. This survey is not intended for use with non-researcher respondents. At this stage, the researcher completes the survey using publicly available sources as described in the Methods and Data Management Plan (EDI_NENA.MethodsDMP). Future use as a survey instrument would require approval of appropriate research ethics board. To use this survey, the researcher finds sources to identify a response to each question drawing from publicly available sources such as the EDI website. For each question, the researcher enters or selects the response, provides evidence of this response, and provides information on the source of the evidence. If no evidence is available, researcher responds as “unspecified.” Once compiled, the responses are entered into the database of Energy Democracy Initiatives for this research project (EDI_NENA.initiatives). Survey questions: EDI identifier (researcher-assigned); Name of organization or program; Location of organization or program (postal address of main office); Year of initiation; Organization type GS5 (public, private, nongovernmental/nonprofit, community-based, cooperative, hybrid); Initiation/management or leadership A5 (top-down, bottom-up or hybrid); Social performance measures O1 (e.g., efficiency, equity, accountability, sustainability); Ecological performance measures O2 (e.g., overharvested, resilience, biodiversity, sustainability); Social-ecological emphasis or norms A6 (social, ecological, social-ecological); Breadth of focus or mental models A7 (holistic or specific issues); Geographic range or spatial scale GS2 (local, regional, national, global, cross-scalar); Available technologies TS4 (e.g., solar, wind, hydroelectric, all renewables). One survey per selected EDI. Text and numeric data. Revisable (new data may be added and old data may be changed or deleted). Completed researcher surveys are created as text documents using Microsoft Word 2016 (.doc) and converted to Rich Text Format (.rtf) as well as PDF (.pdf) file format using PDF version 1.7 (Acrobat 8.x). EDI_NENA.[two-letter identifier for province/state][three-digit numeric identifier for each unique EDI].ResearcherSurvey.yyyy.mm.dd