Maximizing the Utilities of Social Criteria for Urban Water Management and Planning

摘要

A research effort was mounted to develop and test social criteria for effective use in the water management and planning community. The research design employed a space-distance model which involved factor analytical software for comparing empirical data generated from five community household samples. The machine output was then used to assess data relationships and to identify those social variables (i.e., those control points) which channel and direct other variables. Research results indicated: (a) that factor scores from Q-Sort factor analysis programming offer the water management and planning community a ready means for estimating, (1) interactive effects among social variables and (2) which variables are the most probable controllers.